Job satisfaction shows signs of slipping
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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Stocks rise; survey shows individual aspects of job satisfaction falling; consumers have finally spent their excess pandemic savings; Tyson profits rise.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Marketplace Minute. I'm Justin Ho. |
| 0:05.0 | Stocks closed higher on Monday. The Dow gained almost half a percent, the S&P rose 1 percent, and the |
| 0:11.9 | NASDAQ added 1 and 2 10%. |
| 0:15.0 | Workers surveyed by the conference board say they were generally more satisfied with their jobs last year |
| 0:19.2 | than the year before. |
| 0:20.9 | Thing is, people's satisfaction with specific aspects of their jobs, including wages, benefits, |
| 0:26.4 | workload, and work-life balance, is actually dropping. |
| 0:30.6 | All the excess savings people built up during the pandemic has finally been spent, |
| 0:34.7 | according to researchers at the San Francisco Federal Reserve. |
| 0:37.7 | They say people are likely to keep spending if they keep their jobs or rely more on debt. |
| 0:44.2 | And Tyson Food says profits rose last quarter, compared at the same time a year ago, but the company |
| 0:48.6 | says inflation and dwindling savings have made some of its consumers switch to private label brands. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Justin Ho, with the Marketplace Minute. You're going to. |
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