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Re:Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers by microtherion on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:56PM (#42020337)
Unless I misunderstand you, you're citing a completely irrelevant factoid. Employment statistics are based on actual people working, not job ads posted. And the revisions [1] (which sometimes are upward) have nothing to do with ghost jobs, but are due to additional data coming in over time, leading to refinements of the original estimate[2].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm [2] https://thedispatch.com/article/jobs-report-revisions-explai...

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Re:Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers by johnnyanmac on Friday November 01, 2024 @05:27PM (#42021720)
My implications are that companies are either lying and being readjusted from later audits, or government is choosing not to take data into account until later, where impact is lessened. It's not a "ghost job" in the modern meaning, but it does seem to be pretending there are a lot more jobs than in reality.
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