Some of the US’s largest employers, including General Motors, IBM and Meta, have formed a new venture with a laudable goal: ensuring that artificial intelligence doesn’t perpetuate or worsen discrimination in hiring. The mere existence of the Data & Trust Alliance, as it is called, is good news — but it needs to be a lot better. Hiring has changed ...

  FedEx Corp has cracked the code on how to hire in today’s tight labour market: higher wages, better benefits and more flexibility. Who knew? After offering those three things, the company received more than 111,000 job applications, the most in history and up from 52,000 in the week of May 8, Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam said after the ...

  Less than three months into a coal output surge ordered by Beijing to paper over the cracks in China’s electricity grid, the signs of strain are starting to show. Emergency rescue services were rushed to an illegal coal pit in Shanxi province after 22 miners were trapped underground by flooding, one of the country’s worst mine accidents in months. ...