The training pipeline that turned graduates into working professionals is breaking, and no one agrees on who should repair it. A June 2026 BBC News panel, “Is Gen Z trapped by AI?”, put the problem plainly. Young people were told AI would make them more employable, and instead many watch the first rung of the … Read more
PwC released its 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer on June 15, analyzing more than a billion job advertisements across 27 countries and territories. The finding getting the most attention: AI is not simply eliminating or creating jobs. It is splitting the labor market into two tracks that are moving at very different speeds, and the … Read more
Seven in ten workers globally say they are worried AI will lead to widespread unemployment. A recent BBC panel debate in the UK put that question to a room of people with direct stakes in the answer: a tech entrepreneur, an economist, a Labour politician, a company experimenting with AI in real time, and a … Read more
The headline number looks like good news. Employers project 5.6 percent more new graduate hires for the Class of 2026 compared to last year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ spring update. 77.2 percent of recent graduates landed a role within three months of graduating, up from 63.3 percent a year earlier. Set … 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
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 a particular kind of dread in being asked to document exactly how you do your job, in detail, for a system you suspect is being built to do it without you. For thousands of Meta employees in 2026, that suspicion turned out to be correct. The clip above captures something a lot of … 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