Layoff anxiety has pushed employee confidence to the worst rock bottom in nearly a decade

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• Official unemployment measures are low, but discontent is broiling under the surface. A measure of worker confidence from Glassdoor just hit its lowest level in nearly a decade amid trade wars and highly publicized layoffs that leave workers insecure and needing to do “more with less.” 

Workers haven’t been this pessimistic about the future in nearly a decade, according to new data released by Glassdoor on Tuesday.