{"id":13828,"date":"2022-02-04T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/?p=13828"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:56:20","slug":"january-2022-lfs-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The disruption of the omicron wave made its way into the Canadian labour market in January. Employment fell by a similar magnitude to January and April of last year, with pandemic exposed sectors leading the decline, especially in Ontario and Quebec. Overall, the share of Canadians with a job fell back to just below levels seen last September.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rising COVID-19 cases didn\u2019t only dent the job numbers but also impacted work in other ways: total hours worked fell at over twice the rate of employment decline. This partly reflected the pandemic directly, with the number of workers absent due to illness and disability jumping above typical January levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The setback to Canada\u2019s employment recovery doesn\u2019t come as a surprise. The focus now is\u00a0on the path forward. With rules around indoor dining relaxing in some provinces, some of the jobs lost are likely to return quickly. A decent share of January\u2019s net employment decline showed up in a jump in temporary unemployment, indicating that at least some affected workers expect to return to their previous positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian labour market showed an impressive ability to rebound after previous waves last year, and some of the prevailing conditions that helped the recovery, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/01\/26\/job-postings-through-january-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">elevated employer hiring appetite<\/a>, remain. Progress should get back on the right track, but will require ongoing positive economic momentum to sustain it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic exposed sectors lost jobs, while absences due to illness and disability rose across the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":13868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"recruiter-hub-blocks.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mwm_category":[715],"post_topic":[],"post_content_type":[],"post_duration":[],"post_actions":[],"post_franchise":[],"post_mwm_author":[670],"class_list":["post-13828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_mwm_category-state-of-the-labour-market","post_mwm_author-bbernard"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pandemic exposed sectors lost jobs, while absences due to illness and disability rose across the board.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Indeed Hiring Lab Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"874\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brendon Bernard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Brendon Bernard\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401\"},\"headline\":\"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\",\"name\":\"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":874,\"caption\":\"Chart showing the percentage change in employment since February, 2020, seasonally adjusted. The chart compares pandemic vulnerable services, wholesale and retail trade and the rest of the economy. The chart shows that employment in pandemic-exposed sectors declined sharply in January 2022, while other industries were more mixed.\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/\",\"name\":\"Indeed Hiring Lab Canada\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401\",\"name\":\"Brendon Bernard\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brendon Bernard\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/author\/bbernard\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada","og_description":"Pandemic exposed sectors lost jobs, while absences due to illness and disability rose across the board.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/","og_site_name":"Indeed Hiring Lab Canada","article_published_time":"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":874,"url":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Brendon Bernard","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/"},"author":{"name":"Brendon Bernard","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401"},"headline":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress","datePublished":"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/"},"wordCount":241,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png","inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/","url":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/","name":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress - Indeed Hiring Lab Canada","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png","datePublished":"2022-02-04T19:56:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/d341ezm4iqaae0.cloudfront.net\/hiringlaborg\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/02120850\/LFS_Jan22_G1.png","width":1600,"height":874,"caption":"Chart showing the percentage change in employment since February, 2020, seasonally adjusted. The chart compares pandemic vulnerable services, wholesale and retail trade and the rest of the economy. The chart shows that employment in pandemic-exposed sectors declined sharply in January 2022, while other industries were more mixed."},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/2022\/02\/04\/january-2022-lfs-survey\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"January Labour Force Survey: Latest Wave Reverses Some Recent Progress"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/","name":"Indeed Hiring Lab Canada","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/#\/schema\/person\/b28cdbf17ac4ddf600775fb6b65c9401","name":"Brendon Bernard","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c403ee308b52dcbc5be7699799379f8c5a385d836e58ea6c34bf754960036bd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Brendon Bernard"},"url":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/author\/bbernard\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_mwm_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_mwm_category?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_topic?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_content_type?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_duration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_duration?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_actions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_actions?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_franchise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_franchise?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_mwm_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiringlab.org\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_mwm_author?post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}