What Awaits the Class of 2023

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In this edition we take a look at the unexpected consequence of salary transparency, the jobs most at risk from ChatGPT, this year's hottest job markets and more.

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The Class of 2023 Faces a Jittery Job Market: ‘The World Seems to Have Flipped on Its Head.’

The Class of 2023 is getting ready to enter a job market that is suddenly less eager to hire new grads. Many employers are taking a go-slow approach to employing graduating seniors this year, college career offices say.

That’s a sharp reversal from the past two years.

Knowing Everyone’s Salaries Can Light a Fire Under Workers

Increased pay transparency leads employees to work harder, as long as they believe the pay system is fair, according to several new studies. That’s good news for states that have adopted new laws mandating that pay ranges be included on job listings.

Here’s the reason.

It’s the End of the Weekend as We Know It

Once relished as the reward after five days of hard work, weekends are dwindling as employees move fluidly between work and personal time all of the time. A new study by the workforce-analytics software firm ActivTrak found that people now work an average of 6.6 hours on the weekend.

Sunday is the new Monday.

Elsewhere in The Wall Street Journal

Check out some of the Journal’s other best-read stories on work life and the office over the past week:

• WSJ Jobs Summit On Demand (Watch)
• The Jobs Most Exposed to ChatGPT (Read)
• Sunbelt Cities Are Nation’s Hottest Job Markets (Read)
• What Retirement Looks Like in America in Six Charts (Read)

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