Netflix will lay off approximately 1,000 employees, representing about 6% of its workforce, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC, as the streaming company seeks to focus its resources on areas
Netflix will lay off approximately 1,000 employees, representing about 6% of its workforce, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC, as the streaming company seeks to focus its resources on areas
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Thailand plans to introduce an early retirement programme for civil servants as part of efforts to reduce the state workforce by about 5 per cent annually and contain government expenditure, Deputy Prime
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Mercedes-Benz workers’ representative Ergun Lümali has warned that threats of factory closures and demands for employee concessions risk damaging trust between management and the workforce, as the German carmaker seeks to reduce
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Sri Lanka has launched a centralised digital human resources management system for the public service as the government prepares to recruit more than 120,000 additional employees this year, according to Public Administration,
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Artificial intelligence is creating new employment opportunities, but women are taking a minority of them. A LinkedIn study covering 27 countries, including Spain, found that women account for between 13% and 29%
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One humid morning in July, Miriam Wickertsheim woke to a phone filled with more than 100 messages from people around the world asking how they could find work in China. For the
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Sri Lanka and Thailand have signed two labour agreements paving the way for the recruitment of an initial 10,000 Sri Lankan workers, establishing a formal framework intended to govern their employment and
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Nearly 30 officers and officials have reportedly left Sri Lanka’s Parliament in recent months to take up employment elsewhere, with most of those departing said to have moved to the private sector.
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Vietnam is confronting a growing tension between its reliance on overseas employment and the labour demands of industries at home, as workers increasingly seek higher-paying jobs abroad despite efforts by domestic employers
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Predictions that artificial intelligence will either trigger mass unemployment or dramatically reduce the amount of work people perform have dominated public debate for years. According to sociologist Florian Butollo, neither outcome is
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Europe’s automotive industry could lose as many as 726,000 jobs by 2040 unless measures are taken to strengthen key technologies, according to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (Fraunhofer
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Leading Chinese pharmaceutical companies are facing growing difficulties recruiting internationally experienced professionals as they expand into overseas markets, with industry executives warning that shortages of specialized talent are becoming a major obstacle
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A resignation letter from inside Alibaba’s workplace communication platform DingTalk has become a rare public reckoning over the pressures facing China’s technology workers, sparking debate about a corporate culture built around relentless
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OpenAI has introduced a new version of ChatGPT designed specifically for the workplace, marking a significant shift in how the company envisions artificial intelligence being used in everyday professional life. Rather than
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China’s rapidly expanding gig economy is absorbing millions of workers affected by a weak job market, but the shift from traditional employment to flexible work is creating growing challenges for wages, social
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