The FIFA World Cup 2026 is already underway, with 104 matches spread across 11 US cities plus venues in Canada and Mexico through July 19. For job seekers in or near the host cities, the hiring window is open right now. For everyone else, the tournament is a useful case study in how major global … Read more
On June 10, Anthropic announced two new commitments totalling $350 million. The larger piece, $200 million, goes to an Economic Futures Research Fund, an expansion of a program the company launched a year earlier to fund empirical research and policy trials on AI’s economic effects. The fund will back research trials and what the company … Read more
A 24-year-old in New York, a 24-year-old in Seoul, and a 24-year-old in Shanghai are all struggling to land a first professional job in 2026. From a distance, it looks like one global story. Up close, it is at least three different ones, and the difference matters, because what would fix the problem in one … Read more
The headline number looks reassuring. Global unemployment is projected to hold at 4.9 percent in 2026, near the lowest level in decades. If that were the whole story, the world of work would be in decent shape. It is not the whole story. The International Labour Organization’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report, published in … Read more
There is no single Asian job market. A new graduate in Shanghai and one in Tokyo are living through opposite problems at the same moment: one is competing against a record flood of fellow graduates for too few jobs, the other is being courted by employers who cannot find enough workers. Both realities are happening … Read more
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of technical writers will grow 1 percent between 2024 and 2034, slower than the average for all occupations. That single number captures the quiet reshaping of a profession that, until recently, was considered stable and reasonably well paid. The 1 percent figure is not a collapse. … Read more
The conversation about AI and employment tends to split into two camps: the catastrophists and the optimists. Neither is particularly useful if you’re trying to figure out what’s actually happening to the job market right now. Here are five developments worth paying attention to. 1. The entry-level hiring slowdown is real — and it predates … Read more
If the job market had a mood right now, it would be “waiting room.” Not desperate, not thriving — just suspended. Hiring is slow, layoffs are low, and the gap between those two facts is where millions of job seekers currently live. Here’s what’s actually happening, and why some of it is stranger than the … Read more