Tag: North America

The Empire State Building is renowned worldwide as an iconic landmark, but beyond its tourist appeal, it serves as a model for how older buildings can be retrofitted to meet ...

AI agents are already working inside real businesses, responding to customers, scheduling meetings, guiding onboarding, and even preparing leads for sales teams. Unlike earlier automation systems, these agents don’t just ...

Google agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of systemic racial bias against Black employees. A preliminary settlement covering more than 4,000 Google ...

Chegg, a major online education company, is restructuring its operations and cutting 22% of its workforce. This is in response to changing trends in education technology, where students are increasingly ...

Panasonic will slash 10,000 jobs globally and shut down select operations as part of a large-scale restructuring that’s meant to curb costs and respond to weakening demand. The Japanese electronics ...

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released its 2025 Jobs at Risk Report, which revealed that 19.2 million jobs in the U.S. are at high or very high risk ...

The federal human resources agency at the heart of billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to slash the federal workforce is poised to roll out software to speed layoffs across the U.S. ...

Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.9% in April, the highest since November, as U.S. tariffs started to hit Canada's export-dependent economy in earnest, data showed on Friday. The high unemployment ...

Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler on Friday said the U.S. labor market is stable and, based on the current unemployment rate of 4.2% and a range of other measures, is ...

U.S. worker productivity dropped in the first quarter for the first time in nearly three years, resulting in a surge in labor costs that could squeeze margins for businesses at ...