[comicjk]

What are the actual numbers you think are fantasy? Most of the time when I see someone claiming economic statistics are fake, it's a misunderstanding or lack of context. For instance, people will say the US unemployment rate is fake because it doesn't include people who have given up on looking for work... but the U-4 unemployment metric, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics alongside the main U-3 metric, does include these people.

[giantg2]

I think the jobs numbers are somewhat fake. There are so many evergreen postings and stuff like outright fake postings.

[snowwrestler]

Usually “jobs numbers” refer to actual hires, so would not be affected by fake job postings.

[Foobar8568]

For one, look at the evolution of the number of submissions in the threads who is hiring/wants to be hired.

While it's a local biaised, as a Swiss resident, I feel the same about the evolution of the IT job market here.

[rsanek]

I've been using this for years as a signal of how the market's doing. Visualized well on https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/