Labor & Workforce
What the agent economy means for the people in it: layoffs, hiring shifts, reskilling, and the new roles agents create.
California Sends Newsom a Bill Forcing Employers to Name the AI Behind Mass Layoffs
Labor & Workforce · 5 min2026 Layoffs Pass 2025 Total as AI Takes the Blame
Labor & Workforce · 3 minChina's Campus Hiring Season Is Nearly All AI
Labor & Workforce · 2 minOpenAI COO Brad Lightcap Exits Amid Lab Churn
Labor & Workforce · 2 minOracle Sends AI Agents Into the HR Department
Labor & Workforce · 2 minWikimedia Workers Will Take Union Bid to the NLRB, Citing AI Decision-Making
Labor & Workforce · 4 minHeavy AI Adopters Grew Entry-Level Hiring 12 Percent, Forbes Reports
Labor & Workforce · 4 minUS Tech Has Cut Nearly 140,000 Jobs in 2026 as Hyperscalers Pour $725 Billion Into AI
Labor & Workforce · 4 minCompanies That Blame AI for Layoffs Trail the Nasdaq by Almost 10 Percent, FT Finds
Labor & Workforce · 4 minA Majority of US Workers Now Use AI on the Job
Labor & Workforce · 4 minHarvard Paper Warns Agentic AI Is Eating the Entry-Level Rung
Labor & Workforce · 4 minData Center Opponents Stage 142 Protests Across 42 States in a First National Action
Labor & Workforce · 4 minThe Entry Level Job Is Being Redesigned Around AI, Not Deleted, FT Reports
Labor & Workforce · 3 minA Third of US Knowledge Workers Now Freelance, and the AI Orchestrators Earn More
Labor & Workforce · 3 minMeta Workers Say AI Picked Them for Layoffs and Sue to Stop the Next Cut
Labor & Workforce · 4 minVeteran Tech Workers Are Retiring Early Rather Than Retrain for AI
Labor & Workforce · 4 min69 Percent of Americans Want AI Companies to Hand Over Half Their Stock
Labor & Workforce · 4 minTCS Hired 9,279 People in a Quarter While Saying Agents Will Slow Hiring
Labor & Workforce · 3 minTwelve Bronx Nurses Are Out Sunday as AI Takes the Review Queue
Labor & Workforce · 3 minMicrosoft cuts 4,800 jobs and insists the roles are not being replaced by AI
Labor & Workforce · 3 minCompanies are deploying agents. Fewer than one in ten employees can define one
Labor & Workforce · 3 minMcKinsey is cutting its own back office to AI, and the message travels
Labor & Workforce · 3 minMore workforce coverage is on the way. Start with What is GaaS? and agentic AI vs generative AI.
