The recession has given employers a chance to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss people in certain fields, The New York Times reports. But for many of those who have been laid off — especially clerical and administrative employees — their jobs are not coming back.

The recession has given employers a chance to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss people in certain fields, The New York Times reports. But for many of those who have been laid off — especially clerical and administrative employees — their jobs are not coming back.