Our 2025 Hiring Rebound Call, Revisited: Right Direction, Wrong Year
In November 2024 we forecast a hiring rebound by Q3 2025. Manpower's own data says the direction held, the timing missed by a year, and the election story never did the work.
In November 2024 we forecast a hiring rebound by Q3 2025. Manpower's own data says the direction held, the timing missed by a year, and the election story never did the work.
AI hiring was supposed to level the field. Speed, referral networks and abandoned DEI programmes are instead reproducing tech's gender gap, and widening it at the top.
Slowing entry-level hiring to capture AI gains removes the work where judgment is built. No training programme, including the judgment-focused kind, puts it back.
Eliminating managers with one to four reports saves a salary and destroys the training ground, leaving firms hiring for player-coach roles almost nobody can fill.
Organizations have spent billions on diversity programs, yet inequity persists. The reason may surprise you: we've been measuring the wrong things all along.
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