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

Canada loses 42,000 jobs as wage growth hits lowest level since 2017

Statistics Canada data signals mounting workforce pressure with slowing wages and tariff uncertainty

Canada loses 42,000 jobs as wage growth hits lowest level since 2017

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

Older women, younger men

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

Older women, younger men

The $22 billion problem a text message could help with, and the part it can't fix

New economic research on "nudges" versus stronger interventions gives Canadian EAP and wellbeing budget owners a sharper way to think about absenteeism

The $22 billion 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?

U.S. jobless claims hit lowest level since the 1960s, hiding key trends

A single-week record is masking a U.S. labor market that's harder to read than the headline number suggests

U.S. jobless claims hit lowest level since the 1960s, hiding key trends

The algorithm knows exactly how little it can pay staff. That is the point

New research from Oxford and Columbia documents how dynamic pricing platforms have turned pay into a real-time experiment in finding the minimum acceptable wage

The algorithm knows exactly how little it can pay staff. That is the point

Are your younger employees struggling more - or just not as tough as you are?

Mental health claims from Gen Z and younger millennials are rising faster than any other group – and vary depending on their political persuasion

Are your younger employees struggling more - or just not as tough as you are?