employers report in subsequent weeks you get big upward revisions in the data. this december number will be revised a lot higher. we had average monthly job growth in 2021 of about 550,000, that's per month. i think that's the reality of what's going on. i think that's what happened this december. but having said all of that, the thing i think -- and you point this had out, stephanie, is that this is all before omicron. omicron obviously doing a lot of damage here to the labor market and i wouldn't be surprised if in january, a month from now when we're having this conversation, we don't see a decline in employment in january just because omicron is just disrupting things so badly. >> karen, would you agree with that? i'm thinking about all the big businesses that were planning on bringing their employees back this month and now because of the variant it's got pushed back, so all the cafeteria workers, gym workers, ancillary businesses around big corporate offices on hold again. >> we definitely think that this