Work And Productivity

New labour-code wage rules are set to change how companies structure salaries, with a higher share of pay potentially going towards basic wages, PF and gratuity.

Stelco, a Cleveland-Cliffs unit, plans layoffs near Toronto citing US-Canada trade war tariffs, despite commitments to maintain union jobs, prompting a legal dispute with the Canadian government.

Amazon has been heavily increasing its AI investments while reducing or restructuring certain parts of its workforce.

India's young workforce is entering an uncertain world of work where powerful AI tools are becoming widely accessible. The advantage will belong to those who combine deep expertise with digital fluency, and the distinctly human capabilities that technology cannot manufacture.

The potential workforce reduction covers airBaltic’s bases in Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn, with the final number of affected employees still under discussion.

As companies rush to declare themselves AI-ready, employees are being asked to adapt to tools and expectations that many leaders have yet to understand themselves. Gen Z may be more comfortable experimenting with AI, but genuine AI literacy requires more than knowing which tool to open.

As AI takes over entry-level work, companies face a new challenge: how to develop the human judgement and experience that once came from doing that work and learning from mistakes.

The findings underscore a retention challenge for US healthcare employers, who already anticipate a shortfall of nearly 500,000 workers by 2038 due to an ageing workforce and rising demand straining staffing levels. 

Several LinkedIn users wondered if the significant personal sacrifices required for a corporate career are justified, especially given that years of loyalty and hard work can still result in an employee suddenly losing access to their systems.

The notification email told affected employees that their roles had been eliminated as part of a broader organisational change and that their final working day was immediate.

John Morgan sparked debate after saying 23 employees quit when his company introduced camera monitoring for remote workers.

From Chinese labs quietly copying Claude to missile guidance software and a 2030 scenario where a fifth of cognitive workers could be jobless, the AI lab's own disclosures read like a script it should be worried about.