The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

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2nd September 2022

The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

If you’re a recruiter struggling to fill your open reqs, a new survey from McKinsey & Company highlights another factor that may be contributing to hiring challenges: More and more U.S. workers are choosing to be independent workers.

In McKinsey’s latest iteration of its annual American Opportunity Survey, the consulting firm found that 36% of respondents described themselves as independent workers, up from 27% in 2016. That’s potentially a whopping 58 million U.S. workers who are choosing not to take on a full-time job for one employer, including those “working a short-term placement through a temporary agency, tutoring, driving passengers, delivering food or other products, short-term renting a personal property, creative jobs such as acting or writing, and substitute teaching.”

To find out more about this “underreported and understudied” group of workers — including that they have a rosier outlook than so-called traditional workers about their own futures and the greater economy — be sure to check out the top spot in our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. And further down our list, you can also learn why some companies are cutting back employee parental leave; why everyone’s talking about crying bosses and CEOs; and why Gen Z is looking to escape the cubicle.