Why More Job Offers Are Vanishing

Welcome back to WSJ's newsletter about the rapidly changing world of work and how to get ahead in your career. In this edition we take a look at the nuances of a tight labor market that may be showing cracks, why more companies are subsidizing gas costs and how the overturning of Roe v. Wade could affect your employee benefits.?

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Some Companies Start to Rescind Job Offers

The labor market remains hot. Yet some businesses have pulled back job offers to recruits they were courting just a short time ago, a sign that the economy may be turning quickly. When a company revokes a job offer, it can indicate that a company’s business outlook has changed so fast it has to undo hiring plans made only weeks before.

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High Gas Prices Spur Companies to Pay For Commuting Costs

Rising gasoline prices are prompting more companies to offer fuel stipends, gift cards and other benefits, including continued work-from-home privileges. Many employers say making commutes more affordable is the best way to keep their businesses staffed as employees grumble about rising fuel prices and office return plans.

Perfect Your Out-of-Office Reply — and Stick to It

The key to a truly restorative summer vacation might be crafting the perfect out-of-office email. Should you offer up details of your plans? Make a joke? How do you keep follow-up queries at bay without making colleagues and clients raise an eyebrow? Once you've mastered the wording, how do you conjure up the mental fortitude to actually stay out of your inbox, and enjoy that vacation? Here’s how.

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:

? Employers Weigh In on Abortion, Benefits—Cautiously (Read)?

? In Tight Labor Market, Employers Are Covering Work Permit Costs ?(Read)

? Return-to-Office Style, Brought to You By ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ ?(Read)

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This newsletter was curated by Angela Yang, the Journal’s careers and work reporter in New York. Let us know what you think at [email protected].?

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