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Apr 2025
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ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new...

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
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The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling imperative in the face growing polarization. 
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