(Bloomberg) — U.S. job openings unexpectedly slumped, falling to a two-year low in December, which could reflect weaker demand for hiring as an increasing share of the population joins the workforce. The number of available positions decreased by 364,000 to 6.42 million, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS,

Photo by Govinda Valbuena from Pexels Aesop’s Fable, ‘The Fox and the Grapes’, is a story that any human resources manager will be familiar with from personal experience at some point in their career; that bad experience after a promising employee fails to fit in, becomes disgruntled, and then things go pear shaped. Sour Grapes