Postings are outpacing decisions — the edition's own read of the gap.
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Job openings
7.1 million
Hires
5.2 million
Quits
3.1 million
Layoffs
1.6 million
Source: Human Capital & EdTech edition, Nov 1 — the regime matrix as printed (BLS JOLTS, August 2026).
What a worker costs vs what a worker keeps
The growth went to the insurance line, not the paycheck — the edition's own sentence, charted.
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Total compensation — rise over the year
3.4%
Wages and salaries — rise over the year
3.1%
Benefits — rise over the year
3.9%
Health benefits — rise over the year
6.4%
Pay after prices — change over the year (a fall)
0.6%
Source: Human Capital & EdTech edition, Nov 1 — the Employment Cost Index readings as printed.
Announced job cuts — the year vs the month
AI is the year's headline reason and a minority of any given month — the edition's own read.
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All announced cuts — year to date
573,195
Technology firms — year to date
165,925
AI cited — year to date
120,136
All announced cuts — September
43,281
AI cited — September
3,961
Source: Human Capital & EdTech edition, Nov 1 — the Challenger, Gray & Christmas counts as printed.
The doorway problem — McKinsey's counts, millions of jobs
The jobs exist — the doorways are too narrow, and only about one in seven movers has a direct path.
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Jobs of demand fading by 2035
36 million
Jobs created by growth, more than
40 million
People who may need a wholly different occupation
11 million
Source: Human Capital & EdTech edition, Nov 1 — the McKinsey Global Institute study as printed.
Coursera — the quarter in cash and paper profit
Adjusted profit rose while free cash flow thinned — the gap is the number to interrogate.
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Adjusted EBITDA — the quarter
$61.5 million
Free cash flow — a year earlier
$26.6 million
Free cash flow — the quarter
$4.6 million
Source: Human Capital & EdTech edition, Nov 1 — the Coursera quarter as printed.
In the words, not the charts: this view charts the edition’s bound figures only. The edition’s sections — The Week in One View · 1 · The Arc of the Week — Six Days, One Direction · 2 · What Moved — The Week’s Prints · 3 · The Paradox, Resolved — Training Everywhere, Proof Nowhere, Renewals Smaller · 4 · What It Means — Where the Week’s Money Went · 5 · What to Watch — And the Moves the Week Justifies — include stories whose substance is narrative or conditional; those are told in the Newsletter state.