According to research recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the average unemployment rate among college graduates increased to 3.7% between 2022 and 2025 compared to 3.1% between 2017 and 2019.

And the reason for this trend is due to the rise of teleworking or remote work during and after the pandemic, as it is not only harming young people in terms of their skills and job expansion, but also companies that find it difficult to train their employees remotely.

Currently, the unemployment rate in the United States is above 4%; only 300,000 of the total layoffs since the beginning of this year to date are due to AI. For Goldman Sachs analysts, the most affected are those workers with less experience in handling this type of technology.

In the analysis, the New York Fed also highlighted that it is worrying that there is such a high unemployment rate among young recent graduates, since it is of utmost importance that, once they graduate from university, they can enter the labor market more quickly with the purpose of advancing in their profession and making their way with experience to better working conditions.

Natalia Emanuel, an economist and researcher at the Federal Reserve, commented that today it is possible that many companies may be reluctant to hire workers with less experience in remote work modalities. “Employers may not want to hire recent graduates for distributed teams because it is more difficult to teach them the necessary skills remotely,” he added.

The economist in this sense added that “the analyzes available to date suggest that the rise of teleworking has contributed significantly to the recent challenges faced by young university graduates,” she said.