#hiring · How AI Is Reshaping Work

CBRE published the 13th Scoring Tech Talent on August 18 and the finding traveled on August 21. The headline gave New York 394,300 workers against the Bay Area's 375,730. For anyone currently employed, the load-bearing figures are 31% and 60%.

JD released its robot strategy at the World Robot Conference on August 19: 10B yuan-scale investment through 2028, an after-sales network across 100-plus countries, 80 RoboBase sites, and a pledge of more than 100,000 new robot service engineer roles.

Challenger's July report shows layoffs at a two-year low and hiring at a four-year July high. AI still led the reasons for a fifth straight month, and the jobs coming back are not the jobs that left.

A Korn Ferry survey of 1,674 talent leaders finds 52% plan to add autonomous AI agents as teammates in 2026 — some with their own employee records.

ICIMS's June 11 report: U.S. job openings rose 9% in May while hires rose just 1% — tech demand is migrating to healthcare and manufacturing as applications keep falling.

A FrogHire.ai report on 20.7 million job postings found that AI mentions doubled in a year and, among those postings, the share calling AI skills required climbed from 45% to 76%.

A survey of 1,000 US hiring managers found 48% would rather invest in AI than hire and train a 2026 college grad — but a second June report says the opposite.

CNN says the software engineering interview is broken — banned-AI rules clash with on-the-job AI dependence, and Anthropic admits it had to rewrite its own technical questions.