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AI use will become central to corporate recruitment

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INT

Using AIs can expand the candidate pool and increase diversity, automate the screening of applicants, making hiring quicker and thus cheaper, and provide companies with more…

High-frequency unofficial data to aid US policymakers

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UNITED STATES

However, interest-rate-sensitive sectors such as home improvement are suffering the largest sales declines, according to weekly credit-card spending data. Housing prices also are…

Global spyware industry will expand despite scrutiny

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INTERNATIONAL

Public and political scrutiny of the surveillance-for-hire industry has intensified ever since the Pegasus scandal broke last year. This has been aided by efforts by several large…

US regulations lag behind use of AI for recruitment

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US

These systems promise to make HR decisions cheaper, swifter and better for companies while being less burdensome and potentially fairer for job seekers by removing human bias…

More US states to contest corporate diversity efforts

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UNITED STATES

Some 15 Republican states have passed or are considering legislation to ban or limit DEI programmes at institutions receiving state funding, including universities and colleges…

Ending endo risks Philippine labour and employer anger

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PHILIPPINES

Endo is a colloquial expression meaning end-of-contract and refers to the practice of hiring and re-hiring workers on contracts lasting less than six months, the period after…

US job market bifurcation will restrict the recovery

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UNITED STATES

The recovery of the US labour market still lags that of the economy overall, although it mirrors its bifurcation. While the COVID-19 recession has ended for high-wage workers, job…

Risks to China from unemployed youth rise

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CHINA

The timing is suspicious: urban youth unemployment hit an all-time high of 21.3% in June. This is around 6 million people aged 16-24, double the number before the pandemic. For…

US tech labour market will be selectively tight

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UNITED STATES

This was about 40% of the number in November, when Meta became the first ‘big tech’ firm to trim the over-hiring of the pandemic period and reassure investors that it was cutting…

Low unemployment hides slack in Japan's labour market

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JAPAN

Japan's labour market.