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,
Singapore’s newest university graduates are entering an increasingly difficult job market, with some turning to government-funded traineeships that pay less than half the median starting salary for degree holders as artificial intelligence
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Volkswagen is reportedly considering a worldwide reduction of up to 100,000 jobs as the German automotive giant prepares a major restructuring effort, according to a report by Manager Magazin. The potential cuts
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The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of
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Oracle has reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees over the past 12 months, a 13% decline that reveals a larger round of job cuts than previously known and highlights the growing role
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For more than four decades, Raimundo Batista de Souza carried memories of a place he believed he would never escape alive. Speaking from Porto Nacional in Brazil’s Tocantins state, where he now
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Artificial intelligence will change every job in Germany, and neither academic degrees nor vocational qualifications can guarantee protection from its effects, according to Andrea Nahles, head of Germany’s Federal Employment Agency, who
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African leaders and development experts have warned that the continent is struggling not with a lack of ideas, but with turning existing policies and frameworks into concrete results, as calls intensify for
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein My Experience Yesterday, while reading the latest issue of The Economist, I came across Bartleby’s column entitled Book
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If we are to understand the conditions facing vulnerable children, we have to begin with a difficult truth: poverty remains the central force shaping their lives. It is not the only factor,
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Recent reporting from MIT Technology Review highlights a quiet but rapidly accelerating shift in how small businesses operate, as artificial intelligence tools move from experimental novelties to practical back-office assistants. Across industries,
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Most countries of the Middle East and the Global South operating under authoritarian regimes share a single structural crisis, one whose substance is the acute and chronic fragmentation and weakness that afflicts
More Warnings about artificial intelligence wiping out large segments of the workforce have become a familiar feature of public debate. Layoffs at major technology firms and rapid advances in generative AI systems have
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The promise that artificial intelligence will dramatically reshape the global workforce is no longer a distant Silicon Valley prediction. For years, technology executives and investors have argued that AI would unlock historic
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Saudi Arabia has halted the issuance of new contracts for Western consulting firms and delayed certain payments as it moves to tighten control over public spending amid a widening fiscal deficit and
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Even before the United States and Israel launched their war with Iran, life on the industrial outskirts of New Delhi was already a daily struggle for workers such as Kunta Devi and
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