hire
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Economists have taken to calling it a “low hire, low-fire” labor market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The spokesman added that featuring one of the world's biggest selling artists would attract and retain recruits at a time when Japanese businesses are competing to hire new workers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Many people with Ph.D.s in social sciences and humanities don’t want to work in business, and businesses may be loath to hire them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
The couple from Wolverhampton said they have been left in debt and emotional turmoil as they spent a year having to hire and borrow cars before taking out a loan to replace what they lost.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“You guys did a great job. I’d love to hire you to walk him in the afternoons during the week. Starting Monday, if that’s okay.”
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
Verity can’t finish her book series for mysterious reasons, so Jeremy hires Lowen to do so for her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cognizant launched a 12-week boot camp this year for new hires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Unlike previous high-profile hires of canceled celebrities, though, Majors wasn’t just guilty of saying terrible things.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Argenta CEO Kelley Barcus was alarmed when she saw the new hires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
If my mom even hires me to work there.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
Then I hired someone to essentially tell me that some of those decisions were wrong, or at least not in our long-term interest, and what changes to make.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“But once he got hired, then my mindset changed a little bit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
In legal documents seen by the BBC, Mattie Music Group, which looks after Withers' back catalogue, said it hired a musicologist to review the two songs.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
By then, Kubiak had already interviewed with the team even though assistants aren’t allowed to be hired away until their team’s season is done.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
That Gorringe man has hired at least one hundred Egyptian workers by my count.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
In some cases, successful individual traders are hiring small teams to support operations, wagering millions of dollars a week on platforms such as Polymarket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Hammack’s comments came after the September jobs report—released Friday morning—showed weak hiring.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
But the process of interviewing advisers and eventually hiring one taught me things about financial advice that I hadn’t appreciated from years of writing and editing stories about it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Related: Job openings are low and hiring is weak.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
When Schultz was not hiring, there were occasional jobs to be had at the docks, loading and unloading ships.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
