Matthew Sellers

Matthew Sellers

Human Resources Director

Matthew Sellers

Journalist

7 years experience158,686 Total views on Human Resources Director in 2025

Matthew's specialty topics

AI Employment Law Labour Market Analysis Future of Work

Matthew Sellers is a journalist at HRD with an Economics degree and a sharp eye for the research, rulings, and corporate decisions that HR leaders need to understand before everyone else does.

His reporting connects the dots between macroeconomic signals and the workplace — covering AI's impact on jobs and hiring, remote work policy, employment law, labour market data, and the leadership and benefits questions keeping executives up at night.

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Featured content from Matthew

Is AI nicer than your staff? Court blocks United Airlines' union contract defense in age bias case Deloitte's AI mess just got worse – and HR should be paying close attention

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Managerial Economics, Nene College, Leicster University

Read the latest stories by Matthew

Will AI replace headhunters?

Love them or loathe them, the industry could be facing a tech reckoning

Will AI replace headhunters?

Uber tries to slow driverless cars by siding with union

But it’s not about employees – it’s about Waymo

Uber tries to slow driverless cars by siding with union

Bill Gates calls for human-reserved jobs as AI reshapes work

The Microsoft co-founder’s 6,000-word essay proposes taxing AI systems and protecting certain roles from automation

Bill Gates calls for human-reserved jobs as AI reshapes work

Why Australian employers can no longer trust an old LinkedIn job title

Is 'time travel' being used to try to fool you?

Why Australian employers can no longer trust an old LinkedIn job title

Older women, younger men

Is Hollywood's latest fad a reflection of a new workplace dynamic?

Older women, younger men

The $6 billion HR problem a text message could help with, and the part it can't fix

New economic research on "nudges" versus stronger interventions gives EAP and wellbeing budget owners in Australia a sharper way to think about alcohol-related absenteeism

The $6 billion HR problem a text message could help with, and the part it can't fix

AI was meant to gut the outsourcing industry. So far, it hasn't.

Sam Altman said customer support would be "totally gone." So why is the Philippines' outsourcing sector still growing?

AI was meant to gut the outsourcing industry. So far, it hasn't.

Is full-time WFH working out?

Remote work research draws a hard line between two days out of office and five, and it matters

Is full-time WFH working out?

Are taller employees actually better?

It's not in the job description, but your evaluation process may be paying for it anyway

Are taller employees actually better?

Uber knows exactly how little it can pay its drivers. That is the point

Two research teams - one from Oxford, one from Columbia Business School - have independently documented the same finding: Uber's algorithm is not pricing trips. It is pricing workers

Uber knows exactly how little it can pay its drivers. That is the point