Job Market Monitor

On 10 January 2024, the International Labour Organization (ILO) published a new annual report on the global labour market, employment trends, and emerging labour market challenges. The report shows a complex scenario, characterised by disparities between high- and low-income countries, a large part of the workforce employed informally and the prevision of a slight increase in global … Continue reading →

They can increase the provision of labour-market-relevant vocational education and training (VET), supporting national, regional and sectoral upskilling and reskilling strategies, offering learners targeted training for better employment prospects, and helping employers improve employee retention and productivity. They support the modularisation of qualifications and the validation of prior learning, enabling the inclusion of the most … Continue reading →

The Global Green Skills Report 2023 identifies trends at the intersection of the workforce and sustainability, based on the activity of more than 930 million LinkedIn users worldwide. This report includes critical questions that policymakers, business leaders, and others might explore as they seek to develop regulations, programs, and policies that foster green skills development … Continue reading →

Rarely is interest in high-skilled immigration as visible as it was in 2023, when post-pandemic labor market restructuring prompted major destination countries worldwide to adopt policies targeting certain highly educated workers. The year began with the highest ever permanent migration to countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), driven in part by … Continue reading →

This inaugural Jobs and Skills Report 2023 provides an initial assessment of the national skills system and Australia’s current, emerging, and future skills needs. The analysis in the Report provides a strong evidentiary foundation for a national jobs and skills roadmap to be developed over the coming year and beyond. This will be done in … Continue reading →

Despite technological strides forward, this year’s Future of Jobs report suggests that businesses are becoming more sceptical about the potential for artificial intelligence to fully automate work tasks. Executives estimate that 34% of tasks are already automated – just one percentage point ahead of the figure reported in the Future of Jobs Report 2020. Future … Continue reading →

Which U.S. workers are more exposed to AI on their jobs? In 2022, 19% of U.S. workers were in jobs in which the most important activities may be replaced or assisted by artificial intelligence tools. Higher-paid workers, as well as those who are women, Asian or college-educated, are more exposed to AI than other groups. … Continue reading →

Leadership IQ surveyed 3,706 employees currently working from home to discover the truth about their WFH experiences. And we learned that while working from home has been positive for many people, people with certain personality characteristics fared much better… Respondents answered more than two-dozen questions about remote work, as well as questions about their psychological … Continue reading →

Two years after the onset of the COVID-19, we explore how women in Canada are recovering in a tumultuous labour market. KEY FINDINGS Two years after the start of the pandemic, jobs recovery for women in Canada has been rapid and is now slightly ahead of men’s recovery. As of February 2022, women’s employment is … Continue reading →

About half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their prospects for future employment. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that about half of U.S. adults who are currently unemployed, furloughed or temporarily laid off and are looking for a job are pessimistic about their … Continue reading →

With the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year, millions of people have transitioned to remote work, not out of preference, but of necessity. In this sudden transition, many companies made what was once merely a dream for remote work enthusiasts a reality overnight. In the 2019 work-from-home statistics report, TalentLMS surveyed 500 … Continue reading →

Empowering the self-employed workforce Self-employment has risen significantly over the past two decades. The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the fragile nature of work for many people in the UK – and the self-employed workforce is no exception. In this report, we bring to the fore some of the shared challenges faced by self-employed people, especially … Continue reading →

What is UBI? On its face, the definition of a truly universal basic income is pretty straightforward: It’s an amount of cash given to everyone within a geographic area that’s then distributed unconditionally regularly, and on a long-term basis, as Marinescu describes it. (Although, the most recent UBI trials have focused on those with low … Continue reading →

There are a ton of different personality tests out there and you might already be familiar with some of them. You may already know you’re an INFP or an ENTP, based on the Myers-Briggs personality assessment. Many workplaces do this personality testing as a part of professional development, enabling coworkers to better understand and communicate … Continue reading →