{"id":241294,"date":"2026-07-08T06:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/head-of-employment-service-ai-bringing-increased-unemployment-in-hi-tech-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:40:11","slug":"head-of-employment-service-ai-bringing-increased-unemployment-in-hi-tech-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/head-of-employment-service-ai-bringing-increased-unemployment-in-hi-tech-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of employment service: AI bringing increased unemployment in hi-tech sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-901826\">Head of employment service: AI bringing increased unemployment in hi-tech sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-901826\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-901826<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-08 06:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jpost.com\">www.jpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unemployment in the hi-tech sector has reached a record high, with over 16,000 workers recently registering as unemployed, according to Inbal Mashash, director general of the Israel Employment Service.<\/li>\n<li>The significant rise in job seekers, compared to 2022, is threefold and shows a concerning trend, especially among developers, with high exposure to artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Mashash noted a strong correlation between the increased number of unemployed workers and the expansion of artificial intelligence within the industry.<\/li>\n<li>The Employment Service is focusing on upskilling to help both hi-tech professionals and those in other sectors adapt to rapidly changing labor market conditions driven by new technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The organization is working in collaboration with the Innovation Authority, AI headquarters, and the Manufacturers Association to reintegrate displaced workers into non-tech fields, bringing dual benefits to the workers and traditional industries.  <\/li>\n<li>Mashash anticipates another increase in unemployment in the coming months, followed by a gradual moderation of the trend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of employment service: AI bringing increased unemployment in hi-tech sector https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/business-and-innovation\/article-901826 Publish Date: 2026-07-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/q_auto\/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280\/726501","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-241294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241296,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241294\/revisions\/241296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}