{"id":787838,"date":"2026-07-08T22:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787838\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:01:10","slug":"ai-not-yet-driving-large-scale-job-loss-in-australia-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/787838\/","title":{"rendered":"AI not yet driving large-scale job loss in Australia, department says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations\u2019 analysis of AI\u2019s impact on the workplace found the national labour market remains strong by historical standards, with workforce participation near a record high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dewr.gov.au\/workplace-relations\/resources\/ai-and-employment-australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI and Employment in Australia<\/a> report found that since 2022, when generative AI tools such as ChatGPT became widely available, job growth for young people and graduates has remained resilient. As of May 2026, Australia\u2019s unemployment rate was 4.4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, employment among workers aged 20 to 24 has grown slightly faster than for those aged 25 and over during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations\u2019 analysis of AI\u2019s impact on the workplace found the national labour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[256,64,63,371776,181,13468,44],"class_list":["post-787838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ai","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dewr","tag-employment","tag-labour","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}