Some good news from Estonia.

According to Statistics Estonia, the gender pay gap decreased in 2025 by 1 percentage point.

It's good to see the progress, but there is still a lot of work to do to ensure that people, regardless of their gender, can have the same pay for same work.

https://stat.ee/en/news/lowest-ever-gender-pay-gap-recorded-estonia-last-year

#Estonia #Eesti #PayGap #work #employment #statistics #economy #business #EU #Europe #Europa #equality

Lowest-ever gender pay gap recorded in Estonia last year | Statistikaamet

“In 2025, average gross hourly wages were 13 euros for men and 11.4 euros for women, meaning that women’s wages were 12.2% lower. This means that the gender pay gap in Estonia was the narrowest ever,” said Krista Vaikmets, leading analyst at Statistics Estonia. She added that the gender pay gap has decreased by 10.7 percentage points in the last 15 years.

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"CEO just said 'We’ve been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security'"

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/a-gaming-ceo-just-said-weve-been-a-little-bit-too-romantic-about-the-idea-that-we-should-have-employees-and-give-people-long-term-job-security-and-doesnt-that-sum-up-everything-wrong-with-the-industry-right-now/

Yes, this is related to gaming, but I'm pretty sure that applies to pretty much every western industry right about now.

#CEO #Business #Employment #Job #Work #Ridiculous

A gaming CEO just said 'We’ve been a little bit too romantic about the idea that we should have employees and give people long-term job security', and doesn't that sum up everything wrong with the industry right now

Netflix removing Monument Valley 3 seems to have shifted the studio's strategy.

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Do you think anyone who runs these studies ever says “wait, what if people have been unemployed so long that they've exhausted their benefits?”

I think some people do. And then their boss asks if they'd like to run a firsthand test of the situation.

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jobless-claims-plummet-to-lowest-level-in-decades-8024505/
#Employment

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When I taught at university, a lot of people asked me how what I was teaching would help them get a job. I told them that it wouldn’t. And also that it would. I explain in more detail in this essay: https://tinyurl.com/2wr2bm5c #jobs #teaching #employment #thinking #advertising