What do US job seekers want? Higher pay and remote work

Thanks to the massive disruptions wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, workers in the United States are in the best position in decades to pick and choose the jobs they want. And increasingly, they’re interested in working for employers who are offering fatter paycheques and opportunities to work remotely. That’s the finding of the inaugural Relative Job Seeker Interest metric from job-hunting site Indeed. The metric, which captures the kind of positions workers are looking at, reveals the kind of businesses that are falling out of favour – and in favour – with job hunters.