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

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/zuckerbergs-fantastic-50-worlds-2nd-richest-man-is-hiring-elite-coders-with-million-dollar-offers-to-build-the-most-powerful-ai-brain/articleshow/121776198.cms

https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/new-research-finds-that-ai-is-creating-more-jobs-and-higher-pay/91199930

https://decrypt.co/323916/ai-coming-jobs-faster-anyone-though

Cost Cuts Meet Code Frenzy

https://apnews.com/article/google-layoffs-tech-869f86eb6b53044de2cf22a932b0213f

https://qz.com/layoffs-us-job-cuts-challenger-gray-2025-tech-services-1851783674

Soft Power or Bust

https://www.hrdive.com/news/3-in-5-employers-say-soft-skills-are-more-important-than-ever/750424/

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/sense-of-belonging-at-work-why-it-isnt-just-a-nice-to-have

https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/careers/quiet-cracking-at-work/990726

Well-Being Mirage

https://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-employee-wellbeing-policy-offers-1000-dollars-for-lego-2025-6

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3998244/ai-chatbots-see-fast-adoption-but-deliver-minimal-productivity-gains-study-finds.html

https://slate.com/life/2025/05/happy-hour-drinks-office-work-co-worker-colleague.html

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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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AI replaces entry-level work:

🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/openai-ceo-sam-altman-ai-as-good-as-interns-entry-level-workers-gen-z-embrace-technology/

🔗 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-creates-powerpoints-at-mckinsey-replacing-junior-workers/492624

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-hiring-ai-recruitment-interviews-candidates-docs-coding-2025-6

🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-ai-automate-jobs-pretty-terrible-decade/

🔗 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-ai-ceo-demis-hassabis-if-i-were-a-student-right-now-i-would-study-/articleshow/121586013.cms

Grads + Entry-level freeze:

🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/business/jobs-market-college-graduate-economy

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/procter-gamble-cut-7000-jobs-over-two-years-2025-06-05/

🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/corporate-layoffs-companies-making-job-cuts.html

🔗 https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/microsoft-cuts-hundreds-more-jobs-after-firing-6000-in-may

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-hiring-white-collar-recession-jobs-tech-new-data-2025-6

Networking & Quiet Firing:

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/networking-important-new-job-economy-ai-2025-6

🔗 https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2025/05/30/quiet-firing-employers-employees-raises-benefits.html

Wellness ≠ Culture:

🔗 https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/how-leaders-can-build-a-culture-of-wellness-outside-the/491726

🔗 https://www.fastcompany.com/91343512/why-the-ai-age-makes-11-meetings-redundant-ai-11-meetings

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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 going on at the edge of work.

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Gen Z says “No thanks” to Big Tech:

🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/05/28/gen-z-tech-jobs-healthcare-workplace-trust/

🔗 https://www.vox.com/future-of-work/24093495/gen-z-open-office-backlash

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-zs-problem-with-office-jobs-and-their-search-for-meaning-2025-5

Entry-level tech jobs vanish:

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/entry-level-tech-jobs-hard-find-gen-z-2025-5

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-raises-performance-expectations-post-layoffs-2025-5

🔗 https://futurism.com/amazon-training-ai-only-coders

🔗 https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/jpmorgan-asks-managers-to-resist-hiring-as-ai-takes-over-11699428514798.html

🔗 https://www.ndtv.com/business/ibm-has-replaced-8-000-jobs-with-ai-report-5466840

HR & DEI reset mode:

🔗 https://www.hcamag.com/us/news/general/dei-goes-stealth/486759

🔗 https://www.hcamag.com/ca/news/general/hr-leaders-confident-but-cautious/486873

🔗 https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/hr-magazine/hr-tech-trends-2025

🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/05/26/mckinsey-layoffs-5000-jobs/

🔗 https://www.economictimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-employee-fired-by-algorithm-after-25-years-of-service-report/articleshow/110272451.cms

Economic freeze, warm scoop:

🔗 https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/news/WCMS_918540/lang–en/index.htm

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/unilever-ice-cream-factory-workers-job-guarantee-2025-05-27/

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volvo-layoffs-19-billion-reset-2025-05-28/

🔗 https://www.ft.com/content/8304b664-3fd3-4cfc-933d-987ed0e6b7e3

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