Office-type employers added 70,000 jobs in October, the biggest gain in years, which complicates the story that AI is taking white-collar work

The Washington Post reports that employers in professional and business services, the sector that includes lawyers, accountants and consultants, added 70,000 jobs in October, the biggest gain in several years, according to the US Labor Department. The sector also counts lower-paid work such as temps, janitors and security guards. Consulting added about 17,000 jobs and temp agencies about 19,000.

• If you are job hunting in an office role, read your own sector's numbers rather than the headline total, because the gain is spread across very different jobs.
• If you hire, note that computer-systems design firms employ about 26,000 fewer people than a year ago, so some tasks are being done with fewer people.

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