Or is it?
My ten cents so you don’t have to wade through the whole thing.
The report sketches a workplace where confidence has thinned, power has tilted back to employers, and employees are left carrying the weight. Trust in leadership keeps sliding as people call out misalignment, muddled communication, and a shift from occasional layoffs to something closer to a permanent drizzle. Remote and hybrid staff have stalled on career progression, which explains the quiet drift back to offices. AI anxiety is loud enough, but the actual impact on job satisfaction is tiny. Job seekers are taking whatever lands in front of them in a flat hiring market, though early-career workers are finally seeing real wage growth again, particularly in the up-and-coming second-tier cities.
So - same old same? B(S)AU.
Takeaways
- Trust in leadership keeps dropping as workers feel disconnected, insecure, and overlooked amid constant micro-layoffs.
- Remote workers might love the flexibility, but the career ceiling is showing, which will keep nudging people back into the office.
- AI disruption is mostly a storyline for now; the data shows only a faint effect on sentiment.
… no shit Dick Tracy.
And the big reveal?
- The real trust gap isn’t RTO or AI, it’s that workers no longer believe leadership acts in their interest.
- Newsflash, they never did.
- Cities like Provo and Boise are beating the big tech hubs on early-career wage growth.
- Well yes, after what those hubs were paying, reality was always going to bite.
Then again, it’s Glassdoor. What exactly was I expecting?
