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More part-time opportunities are available for workers who need or want flexibility, with the share of part-time job postings climbing since 2022 and full-time postings remaining flat, according to a June 20 report from Indeed Hiring Lab.
The increase appears to be broad and covers most sectors, the report found. In general, employers seem to be swapping full-time jobs for part-time roles in many industries.
“The specific drivers of the trend towards more part-time work — including the possibility that employers are offering more-flexible options to attract workers, and/or that a cooling labor market simply requires fewer full-time roles — are difficult to discern,” Daniel Culbertson, an outreach economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab, wrote in the report.
“The labor market is likely to continue to cool and rebalance in the coming year, and these trends will be an important indicator of employers’ ongoing responses to changing labor market dynamics,” he wrote. “The rise in part-time trends may continue if and as employer demand for workers continues to slowly fade in an uncertain economy.”
Full-time work remains the most common option offered in job postings, accounting for about 62% of job postings as of May. Part-time postings represented nearly 32%, up 2.5 percentage points from May 2022. Employers also posted about 13% of openings with both full-time and part-time options.
