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Bay Area Hiring Slowdown Started Before Shelter-In-Place Orders
On a year-over-year basis, hiring was down 9.1 percent in March.
BAY AREA, CA —Hiring was down in March in the Bay Area by a seasonally-adjusted 4.8 percent on a month-over-month basis, according to LinkedIn's monthly workforce report for April.
In February, before the shelter-in-place orders went into effect in the region, hiring was off by 1.2 percent.
"The decline in hiring makes a lot of sense given the shelter-in-place since mid-March," Rachel Massaro, director of research for Joint Venture Silicon Valley, said in a statement.
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On a year-over-year basis, hiring was down 9.1 percent in March.
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