Job seekers have a name for it now: ghost jobs. Postings that sit online for months, sometimes years, with no real intention of hiring anyone. Companies use them to build a talent pipeline "just in case," to make investors think they're growing, or simply because nobody remembered to take them down. Whatever the reason, the result is the same, candidates pour real time and real hope into applications that were never going anywhere. But ghost jobs aren't the only way companies

There's a term making the rounds right now: job hugging. It describes what's happening across the workforce as people cling to the jobs they have, not because they love them, but because the market feels too risky to leave. The data backs it up — over half of U.S. workers now identify as job huggers, and the number has climbed sharply in just the past few months. On the surface, this looks like good news for employers. Fewer people quitting means fewer seats to backfill, fewe