World Day for Safety and Health at Work

Global employee perceptions of the job market improved in 2025, following a decline the previous year. As the global economy recovered from the pandemic in 2022, so did job market optimism. In 2023, the percentage of employees who said it was "a good time" to find a job almost tied its 2019 record of 55%. The last two years, however, have seen job market perceptions lower than at the start of the recovery in 2022. In 2025, job market perceptions improved by one percentage point from the previous year to 52%, with a margin of error of ±0.1 percentage point. The 2025 increase in job market optimism came entirely from non-remote-capable, fully on-site workers (+2 points). Job market optimism dropped for fully remote workers (-5 points) and remote-capable, fully on-site workers (-14), while optimism remained flat among hybrid workers . The drop in optimism among remote-capable workers could be due to possible declines in remote job opportunities caused by changes in employe...