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Gallup Finds U.S. Worker Optimism on Job Market Falls to 28 Percent
Gallup's late 2025 survey shows just 28% of U.S. workers believe it's a good time to find quality jobs amid sluggish hiring and more unemployed than available jobs.
- Gallup's Q4 2025 survey found only 28% of U.S. workers believe now is a "good time" to find a quality job, with 72% saying it is a bad time. This 42-point collapse from 2022 levels marks the largest decline in job market confidence Gallup has recorded in four years.
- The Labor Department reported the hiring rate fell to 3.2% last November, the lowest since March 2013, while government data shows 7.4 million unemployed people now outnumber 6.9 million available jobs. This mismatch explains workers' difficulty changing roles.
- College-Educated workers express the lowest optimism at 19%, while 30% of all employees agree they "feel stuck" in current roles. A larger share remain primarily because leaving would be too difficult or costly.
- Declining worker well-being poses significant risks to organizational performance as "turnover intent" remains at its highest level since 2015. Employers now face heightened challenges with recruitment and retention as workers struggle to find comparable roles.
- Federal employees face particularly severe declines in well-being, with thriving rates dropping 12 points since 2022, far outpacing other government sectors. These conditions suggest constrained mobility and wage pressure will likely shape the U.S. labor market through 2026.
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thetrucker.comIt’s a bad time to hunt for new jobs, most US workers say in new Gallup poll
A new Gallup survey finds that Americans’ outlook on the job market is increasingly pessimistic. The negative shift may seem incongruous with the low unemployment rate, but the findings likely reflect an ongoing hiring drought.
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