The U.S. labor market is shifting toward skilled labor as white-collar hiring slows
The U.S. labor market is shifting toward skilled labor as white-collar hiring slows
The evidence can be found in the data, which shows higher unemployment for workers in business services and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.
The evidence can be found in the data, which shows higher unemployment for workers in business services and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.
America's job market increasingly appears to be splitting into two tracks, economists say, alongside a steady demand for skilled workers and a flagging interest in hiring more "knowledge-based" professionals.
The evidence can be found in the data, which shows a higher unemployment rate for professional and business services workers, and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing.
"It's a buyer's market for brain and a seller's market for brawn," said Aaron Terrazas, chief economist at the jobs and workplace search site Glassdoor.
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Sweaty blue collar labor requires vastly more skill than any white collar job.
I don't think you can generalise white collar jobs that way. I've done both, and writing software all day takes way more out of me than when I did manual labour. But some white collar jobs don't require much effort at all. I wish it was easier to balance using your brain and your body for work.
I’ll agree with that, really what I meant to get it is that there’s no such thing as unskilled labor and folks belittle specifically blue collar labor often. Divisive of me, so I do apologize.
and folks belittle specifically blue collar labor often
This is a misconception. I hardly ever hear white collar workers belittle blue collar. Unless they're rich which becomes more of a class thing. On the contrary I can't count how many times I hear blue collar complaining about how useless white collar workers are.
I don’t mean white collar folks, I just mean in general it’s looked at as ‘lesser than’ by many. It’s a divisive rhetoric, in either direction, hence my apology for continuing it - no labor is useless and it’s all underpaid
This smells an awful lot like projection. Just because blue collar jobs aren't coveted the same way does not mean that they're somehow looked down on.
I say this as a white collar worker who fucking loves the fact that I can pay skilled laborers to do shit for me. I would be shit out of luck without them, and I can't think of a single person I know that doesn't feel the same way.
If you can learn to effectively do a job within a week I'd consider that 'unskilled' labor. Just means essentially anyone can do it.
If you can’t walk in and start doing it and have to learn literally anything, you’re learning a skill.
Disagree.
That's pure cope coming from a peasant.
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