Global employment trends: Challenges and opportunities for 2025

As the world’s leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland to discuss some of the most difficult and vexing problems facing the global economy, we delve into the latest findings of the ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2025 (WESO Trends) report to find out how geopolitical tensions, climate change, artificial intelligence, and inequalities are affecting global labour markets.

We speak with Ekkehard Ernst, Chief of the Macro-economic policies and jobs unit in the ILO's Research department, about opportunities in green and digital sectors, as well as challenges that continue to face the world of work, including informality, exclusion, and the precarious situation of young people, especially in low-income countries.