labor market

noun

: the number of workers who are available to be hired

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Meanwhile, the workers best positioned to benefit as generative AI tools like ChatGPT reshape the labor market will be those who understand how to use the technology to maximize their own performance, as well as how to test and train AI, Seamans said. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025 Inertia Although the labor market has cooled, the overall economy is still growing at a decent clip and productivity hasn’t slipped. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 19 Dec. 2025 For instance, a January 2025 analysis from the World Economic Forum predicted that AI will be a disruptive, but ultimately beneficial, force on the global labor market that will result in nearly 80 million net job gains by 2030. Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 19 Dec. 2025 That demand is already showing up in the labor market. Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for labor market

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“Labor market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20market. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.

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