Google’s not bringing interviews back in person for nostalgia — it’s doing it to prove the humans are still human. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work.

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China’s 996 culture didn’t vanish — it just learned to smile for compliance photos while burning people out in silence. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work.

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Hiring isn’t broken — trust is, and now companies are paying premium rates just to be believed again. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work.

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Amazon didn’t kill jobs — it rebranded erasure as “innovation” and taught us that efficiency is just empathy with the batteries drained. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work.

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Small talk didn’t die — we just got too busy performing meaning to remember how to mean nothing together. | Subscribe to The Recruiting Life newsletter at JimStroud.com to keep up with what's happening now and next in the world of work.

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South Africa’s jobs crisis proves the harsh truth: in the age of AI, skills beat degrees every time. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com

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The next diversity metric isn’t gender or race—it’s proving there’s still a human on the payroll. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com

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America’s biggest unions just told Silicon Valley: the code doesn’t get the final say—workers do. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com

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JP Morgan’s new $3 billion HQ trades keycards for fingerprints and eye scans—a shiny monument to how workplace security just became workplace surveillance. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com

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A $75M VC firm just fired every human analyst and let AI run the show—proof that the future of work isn’t coming, it’s already replacing you. | Subscribe to "The Recruiting Life" newsletter at JimStroud.com

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