COVID Has Accelerated These 4 Labor Market Trends

Image: Lisa Röper. Article by Susan Margolin. Based on insights from Benjamin Friedrich. Kellogg Insight from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University – August 11, 2021.

From greater flexibility to higher wages, the workplace is never going to look the same.

Despite hopes for a strong economic recovery in 2021, the U.S. labor market is still clawing back its pandemic job losses.

With COVID case numbers rocketing back up, it may be awhile before the U.S. labor market picture comes clearly into view, says Benjamin Friedrich, an assistant professor of strategy at the Kellogg School who researches labor and personnel economics. […]

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