Labor Desk workspace

The jobs wall: JOLTS, unemployment, payrolls, participation, wages, hours, temp employment + jobless claims — every labor-market read tiled at once

Use it when: Payrolls week, and any time you want to know whether the consumer can keep spending.

Payrolls lands the first Friday at 08:30 ET and is one of the two or three largest scheduled moves of the month for ES and NQ.

• Preset strip under the menu bar — one click applies the whole layout. A checkmark tracks which preset is active.
• Or ask for it: show me the labor desk.
• Every panel can be re-pointed at another symbol from its own header, and anything missing is one add <name> away.

• 1. JOLTS and jobless claims first — the highest-frequency reads on the same question.
• 2. Payrolls, participation and hours next.
• 3. Wages and temp employment last; temp help turns before headline employment does.

The tell: Falling openings with flat claims is a soft landing. Falling openings with rising claims is not.

1 panel, read straight from the preset definition in the desktop build:

• Jobless Claims

Plus 3 dense sheets — wide tables that carry a whole complex in one upstream call rather than a wall of single-series tiles:

• inflation Table
• jolts
• labor Table

These desks assume the theory. If any of it is unfamiliar, the background reading is on the learn side:

• What actually moves ES and NQ

• All workspace presets — how docking, link groups and saved layouts work.
• Panel reference — what each panel shows, column by column.