A Pay Cut for a Steady Job? Economic Anxiety Fuels ‘Forever Jobs’

More than half of U.S. workers (54%) say they’d accept a pay cut just to keep working, according to Monster’s 2026 Job Security Report, which included responses from 1,020 U.S. employees polled on July 17. In 2024, more than half of Americans in a Ford Trends survey said they were willing to take a 20% pay cut to have a better work-life balance. The reversal comes amid economic uncertainties…