#workforce

#workforce

New data, however, suggests that the profession's talent crunch may be - cautiously - easing. Graduates who earned a bachelor's or master's degree in accounting fell to 55,152 in the 2023-24 academic year, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). That's a 6.6% decline from the year prior - still a drop, but a slower one than the 9.6% decline in 2022-23

And if Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner's instincts are right, that number will hold steady in the coming years, despite all the talk of how the growing use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) might decimate jobs across the economy. "When we look out two years, three years, five years, where I think we'll be is we'll have roughly the same number of people we have today,"

Erika McEntarfer, a longtime government employee, was fired by President Trump after a jobs report showed slow hiring and lower job estimates for previous months. He accused her of manipulating numbers without evidence.

Social Security gets the majority of its revenue from taxing workers' wages. This means that as long as there's a workforce, the program can continue to get funded.

Diversity efforts are slow but steady, with reports indicating that major publishers like The New York Times, Hearst, and Condé Nast are making marginal improvements.

"Six in 10 (62 per cent) want to see more recognition in the UK for those performing tough jobs with 64 per cent believing they are vital to keeping the country running."

P&G is laying off 7,000 jobs, roughly 15% of its non-manufacturing workforce, as part of a restructuring strategy rather than cost-cutting efforts.

For unions, this represents a once-in-a-generation brand opportunity: to reintroduce themselves to the rising workforce not as relics of a bygone era, but as modern advocates who are shaping the future of work.

It's not good and it sets a worrying tone. From media reports, they have said the lay-offs will be targeted at management and bureaucracy.

What I thought was the ultimate truth—believing women were misled into corporate life instead of nurturing roles—was a misguided perspective that I later recognized as flawed.