The number of open jobs in the US is currently at recession levels:

The number of job openings in the US decreased by -386,000 in December, down to 6.5 million, the lowest since September 2020.
In the past two months, the number of job openings has fallen by -907,000, the largest two-month decline since March 2023.
The number of job positions has dropped sharply by -5.6 million since the peak in March 2022.
This figure is now below pre-pandemic levels in 2018 and 2019, at around 7 million.
As a result, the job openings-to-unemployed ratio has fallen to 0.87, the lowest since February 2021, and significantly lower than the pre-pandemic high of 1.24.
This figure is also lower than the level recorded during the 2001 recession.
The weakening of the US labor market is increasing.