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A cute new term for a morbid reality has cropped up online, describing workers who cling to their jobs out of fear about reentering the dismal job market: "Job hugging."
Anyone who has searched for a job in the last year knows the fears — companies post positions they have no intention of filling, others are terminating workers in favor of AI, and many are combining multiple jobs into one position, askin
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