Sep 27, 2026 · 5 min · 7 segments
Six companies confirmed job cuts this week, spanning insurance, media, pharmaceuticals, automotive and tech, while new research finds nearly half of CHROs are excluded from AI strategy entirely. Add…
Put those two findings together and the picture is fairly stark.
A lot of organizations are deploying AI at speed without the one function whose job is to think about the people using it.
Zoom's chief executive this month joined Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon in predicting a three- or four-day working week is coming soon, thanks to AI.
That is not the world graduates are describing right now.
An acceptance rate its own CHRO links, partly to AI making early career roles newly competitive.
In China, a record 12.7 million students graduated this summer into a market where youth unemployment has climbed to almost 19%, the highest reading since the measure was revised.
Whatever the shorter working week looks like for people already inside an organization, graduates are being asked to fight harder than ever just to get in the door.
Put those two findings together and the picture is fairly stark.
A lot of organizations are deploying AI at speed without the one function whose job is to think about the people using it.
Zoom's chief executive this month joined Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon in predicting a three- or four-day working week is coming soon, thanks to AI.
That is not the world graduates are describing right now.
An acceptance rate its own CHRO links, partly to AI making early career roles newly competitive.
In China, a record 12.7 million students graduated this summer into a market where youth unemployment has climbed to almost 19%, the highest reading since the measure was revised.
Whatever the shorter working week looks like for people already inside an organization, graduates are being asked to fight harder than ever just to get in the door.
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