It's not all in your head
Is the job market genuinely getting harder—or does unemployment simply make everything feel harder?
In this episode, we step back from our own increasingly unhinged application spreadsheets and look at what the Geneva numbers actually say.
In July 2026, Geneva’s registered unemployment rate was 5.1%. At the same time, the number of registered unemployed people had risen from 9,045 in July 2023 to 12,876 in July 2026—an increase of roughly 42%.
Those figures describe two different things: 5.1% is the proportion of the labour force currently registered as unemployed, while 42% is how much the…
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