Tag: North America

The number of Americans filing new applications for jobless benefits increased slightly last week and the unemployment rate appeared to hold steady in February amid a stable labor market. The ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday moved to scrap a rule long opposed by business groups that made it harder to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees, who ...

Mexico has approved a bill to gradually reduce the workweek from 48 to 40 hours, although the reform, expected to be implemented from next year, increases weekly overtime and maintains ...

Investors' and economists' concerns that artificial intelligence will upend established industries are deepening, as Goldman Sachs warned on Tuesday that accelerating AI adoption could push U.S. unemployment higher this year, ...

The shift to a skills-first job market is accelerating as AI completely changes how companies hire and promote. Employers are placing less weight on traditional résumés and formal credentials and ...

An imagined dystopia of mass unemployment fuelled by artificial intelligence, highlighted in Citrini Research's now viral report, has unsettled global markets, where a recent huge bet on the technology is ...

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Tuesday he doesn’t expect the adoption of artificial intelligence technology to totally upend the job market in the U.S. ‘I’m not a doom ...

American workers are spending unprecedented time in front of screens, and the strain is showing up in productivity, absenteeism, and workforce well-being. A survey from VSP Vision Care finds desk ...

Amazon said it expects to invest $12 billion in Louisiana as part of a plan to build data centers in the Pelican State. The Seattle-based online retailer said the data ...

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled 10 new ways for business customers to plug in its technology to key areas of their work, weeks after other releases sparked an ...