The highly contagious Omicron variant did not appear to dent the United States jobs market recovery last month, according to private payroll figures released on Wednesday. But with the coronavirus rampaging through the country, triggering flight cancellations, and forcing workers to call in sick, Omicron is likely to drag on jobs creation in January, economists warn.
Private firms added 807,000 jobs to their payrolls in December, according to the ADP National Employment Report.
Produced by the ADP Research Institute and Moody’s Analytics, the report’s headline number – the highest reading since May of last year – was nearly double what most analysts were forecasting.
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