Dick’s Sporting Goods is hiring fewer seasonal workers for the upcoming holiday season than it did last year. The retailer is looking to hire 8,600 seasonal workers this year, Dick’s Sporting Goods said in a Tuesday (Sept. 26) press release. For last year’s holiday season, the retailer...
Retailers and other employers who engage in seasonal hiring are facing a season of rising prices, reduced consumer spending and worries about a recession. As Barrons reported Sunday, this has led some retailers to cut back on hiring seasonal workers this year or to simply...
For millions of gig workers, the end of the 2018 holiday season means moving on from their seasonal ad hoc jobs to new employment opportunities. The following Deep Dive examines how gig workers manage the changing seasons of temporary employment.
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely forecasted to be one for the record books on that account. According to a Challenger, Gray & Christmas analysis, employers were predicted to...
December 21, 2018
The holiday season always brings with it a major crush of hiring for temporary employees — and the year 2018 was widely forecasted to be one for the record books on that account. According to a Challenger, Gray & Christmas analysis, employers were predicted to bring in around 700,000 seasonal workers for the December holidays, […]
October 16, 2023
As the holiday shopping season approaches, Walmart has announced that it is will not hire additional staff to serve customers during this peak period. This comes as other major U.S. retailers, concerned about a potential slowdown in seasonal shopping, rising labor costs and economic uncertainties, are scaling back on their typical hiring sprees, according to […]
September 26, 2023
Dick’s Sporting Goods is hiring fewer seasonal workers for the upcoming holiday season than it did last year. The retailer is looking to hire 8,600 seasonal workers this year, Dick’s Sporting...
October 23, 2022
Retailers and other employers who engage in seasonal hiring are facing a season of rising prices, reduced consumer spending and worries about a recession. As Barrons reported Sunday, this has...
September 17, 2018
With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year...
