LinkedIn's Blake Lawit, the chief global affairs and legal officer of the Microsoft-owned professional networking site, confirmed in an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week that the company's data shows a decline in hiring of around 20% since 2022. 'At LinkedIn' we have an economic graph which is over a billion members. We've got companies, jobs, skills. It's really an amazing real-time view of what's happening in the labor market. And we've looked ' because everyone wants to know the answer to this question: Is AI impacting jobs right now' We've looked and, honestly, we haven't seen it,' he said during his interview. 'We have not seen the sort of impacts that you would expect to see in areas that everyone is talking about AI' like industries, whether or not it's customer support, or administrative, or marketing ' all these places that if we were seeing impacts [from] AI that's where it would be,' Lawit continued. Lawit also noted that LinkedIn's data didn't...
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