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About The AI/Labor Report

Daily news, analysis, and commentary about the most recent AI-related impact on jobs, the changing nature of work, and AI-influenced labor market trends in the United States, Europe, and Asia. ailabor.substack.com

Language: English
Type: podcast

Latest episodes(41)

1Uber fires HR Division; Uber's AI budget gone in four months; Manila's 2M jobs at risk; OpenAI Codex plugins target job titles; California slow-walks for AI/jobs protections
9 Jun 20266m
Uber had a busy week. On June 3, the company cut 23% of its People and Places division. The division covers human resources, recruiting, workplace facilities, and corporate culture. The official…
2Grads earn $56K not $80K; 42.5% of grads underemployed; remote work pulled up job ladder, AI chipping away at higher rungs; AI agents fail 19 of 20 tasks; FOMO begetting FOBO
8 Jun 20267m
Graduation season arrived this year with an unusual tradition. Commencement speakers who mention artificial intelligence keep getting booed. The students are not being dramatic. The unemployment rate…
3Record AI job cuts, record jobs report — same Friday; tech shed 38K jobs; 172K added elsewhe; white-collar cuts hidden; 40M gig workers unprotected; S Korea has a plan, the U.S. does not
5 Jun 20267m
The headline number from this morning’s government jobs report deserves a closer look before anyone feels too good about it. The economy added 172,000 jobs in May. Wall Street expected 80,000. The…
4Half the office ignores AI; Gen Z sabotages the rollout; AI disintegrating India's $283B economic flywheel; Europe's 15% AI adoption gives regulation breathing space; new employment numbers on the way
4 Jun 20268m
Something interesting is happening in corporate America, and it is the kind of thing that does not show up in the quarterly earnings calls where executives explain, with considerable confidence, that…
5More U.S. jobs posted, still nobody hired; India's IT adds 17 workers in 9 months; Downhill: Japan shows where wages go; workers in 12 countries afraid; Philippines loses English outsourcing advantage
3 Jun 20267m
The government published two labor market readings this week, and they tell the same contradictory story they have been telling all year. The BLS JOLTS report released Tuesday showed 7.6 million job…
6UK firms cut 8% labor after AI adoption; 35% of Americans are "disposable"; Connecticut mandates AI disclosure; China bans AI firings, Canada thinking about it; H-1B visa workers face 60-day clock
2 Jun 20266m
A translator in Brighton, England has watched her corporate press release work disappear. A London cinematographer is retraining as an outdoor instructor for minimum wage. These are not Americans, but…
7Jobs vanish without layoff announcements; Intuit fires the very workers who built it and buy it; 142,000 tech jobs gone; 6 million clerical workers can't adapt; they're already using the tools
1 Jun 20267m
The Jobs That Quietly Disappear A Yale analysis finds that the biggest labor market impact of agentic AI will not appear in layoff data. It will instead appear in opportunities that quietly disappear…
8IMF says AI is shrinking the middle class; 134,000 tech jobs gone this year; Upwork fires the workers it sells work to; Citi cutting 20,000; two CEOs soften their AI Jobpocalypse story before they IPO
29 May 20269m
The Middle Class Is the Target The International Monetary Fund does not typically frame its research in personal terms. Its January 2026 “Staff Discussion Note” on AI and new job creation does. The…
9Microsoft's AI chief puts an 18-month countdown on your job; AI wins 83% of real professional tasks; Goldman counts 16,000 jobs lost monthly; South Korea plans for job disruptions, D.C. doesn't care.
28 May 20267m
The Man Who Runs Microsoft’s AI Division Just Put a Countdown on Your Job On Tuesday, Sam Altman spoke to executives in Sydney and said the jobs apocalypse was overblown. On Wednesday, the man who…
10Class of 2026 hits decade-high unemployment; PayPal cuts 4,760 for AI savings; Orgs pay AI layoff survivors more and employs fewer; California takes 180 days to study obvious AI worker disruptions
27 May 20268m
The Degree That Was Supposed to Protect You For most of the past three decades, the standard advice to American workers was direct: get a college degree, move into knowledge work, and stay ahead of…

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