Some U.S. employers are seeking new workers who are willing to work longer hours and meet higher demands. Lindsay Ellis, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, joins CBS News with more.

A growing number of U.S. employers are posting job listings that emphasize high expectations, including long hours and in-person work, moving away from promoting work-life balance. Companies such as RILA are upfront about their demands, specifying requirements like a 70-hour work week to ensure applicants are fully aware of what the job entails.

This trend is partly due to a slower hiring market, giving employers more leverage to be selective and transparent. While some job seekers appreciate the honesty, many note that compensation must match the increased workload. Transparency is seen as beneficial for both employers and candidates, helping to align expectations and reduce turnover.

Growing demands from employers for workers seeking new jobs

Now, if you're not ready to grind, don't apply. That's the growing trend, if you can believe it, on job listings that are ditching work-life balance for nonstop hustle. Take a look at this real job posting. It's for a senior engineer position at a speech software company called RILA. They're urging applicants to not work there if you're not excited about working 70 hours a week in person. We spoke to the CEO of RILA, who says they've had success in the hiring process. The problem is when companies are not transparent with people. When they say they have their real expectations, but they don't tell people ahead of time. So then they join, and then everybody's pissed off. The employee's pissed off, the company's pissed off. I'm like, yeah, you didn't align expectations. You should tell people if you're gonna do radically different things and you're gonna demand a lot of hard work, tell them. So that when they join, they're like, yes, this is exactly what I want. So because we're very transparent with people, every single person that has been hired at RILA knows that that's what they're signing up for, and they're self-selecting it. They're literally saying, I love that. There you go. I'm not surprised that CEO wants 70 hour a week employees. Next to me, you're looking at Wall Street Journal reporter, Lindsay Ellis. She's reported on this and joins us now to talk about everything. Good morning to you, Lindsay. I hope you've had your coffee. I don't know if you'll be as intense, but why are we seeing more companies advertising as a benefit these grueling hours and intense expectations? Yeah, I heard a couple of different reasons from companies. I mean, first and foremost, they have a little bit of leverage right now. Companies hiring has slowed over the last few years. They are in a position in many respects to lay off workers so they can be selective over who they want and who they think would be the best fit for their team. And they can lift the expectations in that context, no longer making overtures to work-life balance or perks or flexible schedules. The other aspect of this too is, just as the real life CEO was saying, if you are very transparent about what you want and what your expectations are, maybe people are not going to apply. That's beneficial for them for a number of reasons. First, they don't wanna have to do another job search in six or nine months. That takes a while, that's expensive. And second, you want to maybe whittle down the candidate pool a little bit. It's so easy to apply for jobs these days with sort of the one-click easy apply on LinkedIn or other online forums, that kind of saying this is where the bar is might winnow the pool to some degree, making it a little bit easier to sift through from the corporate perspective. Yeah, transparency, a really important point. We actually asked the realist CEO if he thinks this is sustainable, though. Listen to what he said. Because these people that we hire, they wanna work seven days, they just wanna work all the time, they wanna be in the office. And I have to be like, hey, hey, hey, I don't care if you're in the office seven days a week and if you come in sleep deprived and then you're less productive at your work because then that's what's gonna produce burnout. And so the way we manage that at Arilla is, number one is we make sure that people are sleeping really well. We make sure that people are eating really well and we make sure that people are staying really healthy. So what do you make of that? Is this something job seekers really will respond to? I think it depends on who you ask, their circumstances, sort of what the market expectation is in their sector. I talked to one job seeker for this story, but I think it's a sentiment that's widely held among other job seekers too, that if you're gonna work 70 hours a week, you have to get paid for 70 hours a week of work. The ratio of work put in to what you get out has to make sense to you there. But I did hear from other job seekers too, that there's a real benefit to this transparency, a sentiment of, hey, at least they're being honest about what the expectations are. And I think that that would also go a long way for someone who is applying for a job and in that interview process. Yeah, some people actually want that, hard as it is to believe. Lindsay Ellis, folks should really look at your reporting for The Wall Street Journal. We appreciate you joining us.

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