Workforces before and after the holidays 'Tis the season for holiday hiring. And, according to a new report at USAFacts, January is a time for trimming the workforce. After the end-of-the-year shopping is done, many retailers shed not just their seasonal help, but workers hired before the holidays. - Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2011 to 2021 shows that retailers in the eight retail categories most reliant on holiday sales lose an annual average of 686,000 jobs in the first two months of the year.
- Holiday retail hiring reached a peak of 761,000 employees in 2013.
Learn more about holiday retail hiring in this new report. Seven charts a-learnin' Want more retail numbers? Here's a stocking stuffed with charts on holiday shopping, the Consumer Price Index, COVID-19, travel, and more. |
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