California employers will soon need a person to stand behind any artificial intelligence-driven decision to fire or discipline a worker. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, on Sept. 30 as one of 13 bills that day, according to the governor’s...
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal employees in hundreds of locations across the United States to meet the demand of the upcoming holiday shipping season, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. These seasonal employees will join UPS’s global workforce that numbers around...
Wall Street banks are accelerating artificial intelligence hiring as they shift from chatbots to AI agents. Hiring is expanding beyond model builders to engineers who put agents to work across trading desks, compliance units and back-office operations. AI-related job postings at banks including JPMorgan Chase,...
Nonfarm payroll, employment in all major industries and the unemployment rate “changed little” in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said Friday (Oct. 2) in its latest employment situation summary. Media reports characterized the numbers as a continuation of the “low hire, low fire” trend...
October 01, 2026
Consumers may still feel secure about their jobs, but a thinner savings cushion is changing the financial environment in which they manage their money. This finding comes from the September 2026 edition of the PYMNTS Consumer Expectations Index, “Consumers Hold the Line as Their Financial Cushion Shrinks.” The report found that overall consumer confidence fell […]
September 10, 2026
Americans aren’t expecting a wave of pink slips, but they’re becoming less confident about what would happen if they needed another job. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s August...
September 10, 2026
Listen to the Fired Up podcast with Karen Webster. Artificial intelligence can compress work that once took days into minutes, but companies still must decide what their people should do...
July 27, 2026
The cost of getting to work is starting to determine who gets to work. Transportation problems are causing lower-paid workers to miss shifts, lose income and turn down jobs they...
October 07, 2026
UPS is hiring 100,000 seasonal employees in hundreds of locations across the United States to meet the demand of the upcoming holiday shipping season, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. These seasonal employees will join UPS’s global workforce that numbers around 460,000, according to the release. The number of seasonal employees […]
October 02, 2026
Nonfarm payroll, employment in all major industries and the unemployment rate “changed little” in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said Friday (Oct. 2) in its latest employment situation summary....
September 24, 2026
Bank of America plans to hire 1,000 additional apprentices over the next two years, together with the more than 800 it already hires each year, the bank said in a...
August 27, 2026
Apple is laying off nearly 150 employees as it restructures to focus on artificial intelligence, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday (Aug. 27). The job cuts are at Apple’s Cupertino...
