GEE Group Inc. (JOB) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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from our forward-looking statements these risks and uncertainties are described below under the caption forward-looking statements safe harbor and in Wednesday's earnings press release and our most recent form 10 Q 10 K and other SEC filings under available in the investor center of our website, www.geegroup.com. Now on to today's prepared remarks. We continue to face very difficult and challenging conditions in the hiring environment for our staffing services, which have been ongoing since the second half of 2023 and throughout 2024 and 2025. These have stemmed from what is now acknowledged as overhiring that took place in 2021, 2022, and the immediate aftermath of the pandemic and the macroeconomic uncertainty, interest rate volatility, and inflation that followed. These conditions have produced a near universal cooling effect on U.S. employment, including businesses' use of contingent labor and the hiring of full-time personnel. Since 2023, Many client initiatives, such as IT projects and corporate expansion activities, requiring additional labor in general, have been put on hold. Instead, many of the businesses we serve have implemented and proceeded with layoffs and hiring freezes, and in many cases have focused on retaining their existing employees rather than adding new employees. Companies and businesses are cautiously assessing interest rates, market conditions to ensure their investments in technology and human capital are strategic and sustainable artificial intelligence or ai is gaining ground at an accelerated pace and is further complicating the hr and project planning opportunities and risks facing virtually all companies including consumers of our services these conditions negatively impact job orders for both contract and direct hire placements and h...