https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/06/21/bay-area-job-tech-economy-covid-layoff-hotel-restaurant-store-may/ > The Bay Area powered to big job gains in May, a hiring surge led by the South Bay that — for now — has banished the ominous specter of a weak labor market and job losses that haunted the region earlier this year. > The nine-county region added 7,000 jobs in May, the most in a month since December 2023, when the area produced a gain of 11,200 positions, the state’s labor agency reported Friday.