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RTO creeps up, HR burns out, visas tighten, and AI workslop eats real work. This week’s Paper Cut breaks down the choices that shape your employer brand.
This week’s Paper Cut slices through the spin to give HR and employer brand leaders the insight they actually need. No fluff, just facts.
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AI isn’t the story. Your operating model is. This week we break down agentic HR, augmentation without layoffs, and why carrots beat control.
This week’s Paper Cut slices through the spin to give HR and employer brand leaders the insight they actually need. No fluff, just facts.
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Agentic HR, Not Theatrica...
Layoffs roll on, RTO gets louder, and consulting is rebuilt by the very tools it once sold. Workers hedge, managers lose the room, and trust becomes the only durable advantage. This week’s Paper Cut turns headlines into practical moves for employer-brand leaders.
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Layoffs With a Si...
Salesforce cuts staff. Amazon tightens rules and chases urgency. Paramount plans five days in the office. The market cools, workers hedge, and AI only pays off when companies change how they work. Paper Cut distils the noise into practical moves for employer-brand leaders.
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Hard ...
AI savings, manager cuts, RTO reality, and a labour market easing into a long hold. Paper Cut turns the week’s headlines into practical moves for HR and employer-brand leaders.
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White-Collar Reset
Morgan Stanley says AI could save S&P 500 companies 920 billion dollars: https...
Trust used to be your quiet advantage. In 2025, it is the whole game. In this session, we unpack why employee trust is dipping, where leadership credibility breaks, and a practical plan to rebuild it without the corporate varnish.
You will learn • What the latest data says about trust in employers • The gap between leaders saying “we trust people” and employees actually feeling trusted • Remote work, surveillance and productivity p...
Surveillance spreads. AI pilots stall. Skills get political. Entry-level careers wobble. Paper Cut distils the week’s headlines into moves you can use.
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Surveillance Season 2
Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/hsbc-plans-major-global-expansion-of-offic...
PwC leans on traffic lights to track attendance. The UK jobs market cools. Major employers slim down while AI headlines get louder. Paper Cut turns the noise into usable moves for HR and employer brand leaders.
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Surveillance Season
Personnel Today: https://www.personneltoday.com/...
Jobs are cooling while AI cuts get louder. Leaders tighten control, workers lose patience. Paper Cut connects the dots so HR and employer-brand leaders can act with clarity.
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Stall Speed Meets Automation Hype
Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-labor-market-cracks-widen-...
Big Tech bosses brag about billionaire deputies while trimming headcount and blaming AI. Paper Cut cuts through the spin so HR and employer-brand leaders can act—not react. No fluff, just facts.
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Executive Bravado Meets Headcount Reality
Google Earnings: CEO Sundar Pichai Dismisse...
Layoffs blamed on AI, return-to-office rules nobody can enforce, and a culture gap employees are ready to quit over. This week’s Paper Cut slices through the noise for HR and employer-brand leaders. No fluff, just facts.
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AI Cuts Both Ways
‘AI impact feels way more real now’: Micr...
AI reversals. Office showdowns. Gen Z burnout. This Paper Cut slices the hype so HR and employer-brand leaders can act—fast. No fluff, just facts.
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AI Clean-up Costs
Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes (https://f...
This week’s Paper Cut slices through four‑day week wins, stealth layoffs, and Gen Z’s new survival tricks. No fluff, just the facts senior HR leaders need.
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Shorter Weeks, Sharper Output
Study: 4 day work week benefits employers (https://www.abccolumbia.com/2025/07/03/study-4-day...
This week’s Paper Cut cuts through consultancy chaos, skills‑first hype, and cultural charades so HR leaders can plan without panic. No fluff, just the signals.
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Algorithms vs Accenture
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/26/who-needs-accenture-in-the-age-of-ai
Grim relocation deadlines, AI as a head-count diet pill, and a shattered entry-level market—this week’s Paper Cut slices through the spin so HR and employer-brand leaders get the facts. No fluff, just sharp insight.
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Clock-Punch Capitalism
The talent market snapped this week: Meta offers million-dollar packages while Google hands out buy-outs. Paper Cut slices through the spin so HR and employer-brand leaders see the real scoreboard. No fluff, just facts.
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Elite Brains, Empty Rungs
Interns are out, algorithms are in. Entry-level jobs are being erased, McKinsey bots are building your decks, and career stability now depends more on who you know than what you know.
This week’s Paper Cut breaks down the workplace headlines that matter—and what HR and employer brand leaders must do next.
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...Gen Z would rather scrub hospital floors than code in a surveillance-heavy tech culture. Entry-level roles are evaporating. HR and DEI are going stealth to survive. And oddly enough, Unilever’s ice cream factory workers have more job security than most knowledge workers.
This week’s Paper Cut slices through the spin to give HR and employer brand leaders the insight they actually need. No fluff, just facts. Here’s what’s really g...
Straight talk on talent, tech, and the future of work.
This week: AI layoffs, consulting chaos, performance reviews as layoff prep, and Gen Z opting out. Your employer brand’s next big test isn’t just retention, it’s relevance.
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AI Ate My Job
Workday AI hiring discrimination lawsu...
Silicon Valley wants to replace all human workers? That’s not a headline, it’s a business model.
This week on Paper Cut:
🤖 AI: Eliminate as Many Humans as Possible
🧱 Middle Management Gets the Axe
📉 Global Confidence Collapses
🚫 Gen Z Opts Out of Leadership
As tech elites pitch an AI-powered world with no humans required, the workforce is left wondering: where do we fit in? From sweeping layoffs to a quiet rebellion...
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