[11 MAY] PAPER CUT
Job cuts rise, AI gets ruthless, trust frays, and GenAI leaves gender gaps in its wake. The economy’s wobbling, leadership’s sweating, and HR is stuck translating it all. Let’s cut through the noise.
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Welcome back to another edition of Paper Cut, your weekly slice of HR reality straight, sharp, and strategy-first. While the job market does its best impression of stability, the headlines tell a different story. AI is rewriting everything from HR to cybersecurity, trust is falling through the floor, and gender disparities in tech adoption are quietly growing.
The result? A workplace landscape where confidence is brittle, systems are under strain, and everyone from CHROs to middle managers is being asked to do more—with less clarity. And as always, the loudest voices aren’t always telling the whole truth.
Here’s what we’re really seeing behind the workforce headlines this week.
