· Aug 18, 2026
Daniel Culbertson reports in Indeed Hiring Lab on US labor-market trends
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Published August 18, 2026, Daniel Culbertson’s report describes Indeed data on employment trends across five US industry verticals in the second quarter of 2026. He reports that Software Development job postings gained amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout, while quits rates in tech-related industries were low. He also describes Healthcare as beginning to fall in line with the rest of the labor market: job postings declined in most categories, Nursing wage growth slowed, and the quits rate eased. The report presents these sector trends but does not explain what drove them or the Software Development posting gain.
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Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published August 18, 2026. The page summarizes trends but does not provide the underlying measurements or explain what is driving the sector differences.
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Which factors account for the Software Development posting gain amid uncertainty around the AI rollout?
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Daniel Culbertson’s report was published August 18, 2026.
By Daniel Culbertson August 18, 2026
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Indeed Hiring Lab’s briefs track employment trends across five industry verticals during the second quarter of 2026.
Using the latest Indeed data, these short research briefs track employment trends in five industry verticals over the second quarter of 2026.
Source-stated
The report says Software Development job postings gained amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout, while quits rates in tech-related industries are low.
Software Development job postings notched a sizable gain amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout. Less surprisingly, the quits rates in tech-related industries are quite low as workers hold on to the jobs they have in hand.
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The report describes Healthcare as beginning to fall in line with the rest of the labor market, with postings declining in most categories and Nursing wage growth slowing.
Job postings in most categories declined over the past year, wage growth in Nursing has slowed consistently, and workers are holding on tighter to their roles as the quits rate continues to ease.
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Indeed Hiring Lab
Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends.
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Version 1 · 2026-11-06T05:53:23.478Z
Daniel Culbertson reports in Indeed Hiring Lab on US labor-market trends
Published August 18, 2026, Daniel Culbertson’s report describes Indeed data on employment trends across five US industry verticals in the second quarter of 2026. He reports that Software Development job postings gained amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout, while quits rates in tech-related industries were low. He also describes Healthcare as beginning to fall in line with the rest of the labor market: job postings declined in most categories, Nursing wage growth slowed, and the quits rate eased. The report presents these sector trends but does not explain what drove them or the Software Development posting gain.
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Original source date: Aug 18, 2026 (2026-08-18).
Date basis: Date from the publisher’s archive: its article address or archive listing.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-06T05:53:23.478Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T19:42:28.974Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T21:02:12.399Z.
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Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published August 18, 2026. The page summarizes trends but does not provide the underlying measurements or explain what is driving the sector differences.
Open question
Which factors account for the Software Development posting gain amid uncertainty around the AI rollout?
Source-stated
Daniel Culbertson’s report was published August 18, 2026.
By Daniel Culbertson August 18, 2026
Source-stated
Indeed Hiring Lab’s briefs track employment trends across five industry verticals during the second quarter of 2026.
Using the latest Indeed data, these short research briefs track employment trends in five industry verticals over the second quarter of 2026.
Source-stated
The report says Software Development job postings gained amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout, while quits rates in tech-related industries are low.
Software Development job postings notched a sizable gain amid increasing uncertainty around the AI rollout. Less surprisingly, the quits rates in tech-related industries are quite low as workers hold on to the jobs they have in hand.
Source-stated
The report describes Healthcare as beginning to fall in line with the rest of the labor market, with postings declining in most categories and Nursing wage growth slowing.
Job postings in most categories declined over the past year, wage growth in Nursing has slowed consistently, and workers are holding on tighter to their roles as the quits rate continues to ease.
Source and contributor context
Indeed Hiring Lab · Publisher
The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred.
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Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Indeed Hiring Lab
Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: 26f385b6-986a-3bc1-3440-e8ff7947a3a3.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: uncertain by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-06T05:49:21.405Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge_admitted_by_model.
Observation: 9cb8949f7eaf565bcbabadd0695417022b46f5412b75e8dd067f8a5bbef4fad1. Source text hash: 81e0c87293d255b05bf75dea95c9c09d7a49613803a8b25bc3ceb4906b39c5e2.
uncertain · 2026-11-06T05:49:21.405Z · anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
Publication: 26f385b6-986a-3bc1-3440-e8ff7947a3a3
attribution — pass: The page is bylined by Daniel Culbertson for Indeed Hiring Lab. It comments on five sector briefs in its own words, so it counts as one piece rather than a bare listing. The reading keeps the trends attributed to the report.
By Daniel Culbertson August 18, 2026
summary — uncertain: Central terms are left unexplained and the definitions list is empty. A general reader may not know what a quits rate is (workers voluntarily leaving jobs) or why low quits signal caution. The reading also flattens the source's framing: it drops that the tech news is labeled 'surprising' and the 'sizable' size of the gain. Its closing line, that the report does not explain what drove the trends, overlooks the source's own explanation for low quits. Smallest repair: briefly gloss quits rate, keep 'sizable' and 'surprising', and narrow the gap to the posting gain.
The Tech labor market update brings both some expected and some surprising news.
date — pass: evidence.originalPublished is 2026-08-18 at day precision, which matches the source dateline. The reading states the date at day precision and uses no later material, such as the carousel of related stories. There is no hindsight framing. The kind is publisher-page, so no archive disclosure is needed. The byline date is plainly part of the original piece despite the later edit on 2026-09-02.
By Daniel Culbertson August 18, 2026
support — uncertain: The listed claims match the text. However, the summary and limitations say the report does not explain what drives the trends. The source does attribute low tech quits to workers holding on to their jobs, so that statement is only partly supported. The page was also edited after publication (dateModified 2026-09-02), and the body text cannot be confirmed as unchanged.
the quits rates in tech-related industries are quite low as workers hold on to the jobs they have in hand
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Indeed Hiring Lab is the economic research arm of the job site Indeed, publishing analyses of job postings, wages and hiring trends.
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