The Office Disappears While the Economy Grows For decades, economic expansion meant rising employment across the so-called “white-collar core” of the American economy—finance, insurance, software, legal services, consulting, and other corporate professions. That equation has now broken. Despite solid GDP growth from 2023 through 2026, these sectors are shedding jobs—not adding them. According to fresh labor data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in these core office industries peaked in late 2022 and has since declined by nearly 2%. Over the same period, employment outside these sectors is up over 4%. This isn’t a temporary correction. It’s a permanent structural shift, and it has serious implications for anyone relying on a paycheck from a keyboard-and-screen job. White-Collar Core Shrinks…
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