What are Zombie jobs? Hint nothing to do with Halloween

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What are Zombie jobs? Hint nothing to do with Halloween

“Zombie job” can refer to several concepts: a position that is unfilled for a long time, a role with little productivity or impact that continues due to bureaucracy, a job at risk of being automated, or a misleading job posting for a role that is not actively being hired for. The term is also used for the misleadingly named “zombie companies” that are kept in business by cheap debt despite poor performance, which may have a large number of “zombie jobs”

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