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Talking the (workplace) talk

2024/7/23
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Despite high interest rates and prices, car sales are holding steady, driven by demand and changes in consumer behavior, including an increase in cash purchases and a shift towards smaller, more affordable models.

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“Act your wage,” “coffee badging,” “ghost jobs” — the internet is always vomiting up new workplace phrases. You may even use some of them to describe the bizarre job market of the past few years. So when popular work slang shifts from silly — “lazy girl jobs” — to grim — “quiet cutting” — are there hints about where the labor market is headed? Also in this episode: Tech firms ditch user counts, car sales motor on despite high costs and educators get educated about jobs at the Port of Baltimore.