By Arlenys Tabare
According to an investigation recently published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, The average unemployment rate among college graduates increased to 3.7% between 2022 and 2025 compared to 3.1% recorded between 2017 and 2019.
And the reason for this trend is due to the rise of teleworking or remote work during and after the pandemic, as it is not only harming young people in terms of their skills and job expansion, but also companies that find it difficult to train their employees remotely.
However, another component stands in the way: the incorporation of artificial intelligence for many of the operations and work processes. According to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, This year alone, about 17% of layoffs are related to the integration of AI into the labor market, specifically in the technological sectors.
At the moment, the unemployment rate in the United States is above 4%; only 300,000 of the total layoffs since the beginning of this year to date are due to AI. For Goldman Sachs analysts, the most affected are those workers with less experience in handling this type of technology.
In the analysis, the New York Fed also highlighted that It is worrying that there is such a high unemployment rate among young people who have recently graduatedsince it is of utmost importance that, once they graduate from university, they can enter the labor market more quickly with the purpose of advancing in their profession and making their way with experience to better working conditions.
Natalia Emanuel, an economist and researcher at the Federal Reserve, commented that today it is possible that many companies may be reluctant to hire workers with less experience in remote work modalities. “It is possible that Employers may not want to hire recent graduates for distributed teams because it is more difficult to teach them the necessary remote skills,” he added.
The economist in this sense added that “the analyzes available to date suggest that the rise of teleworking has contributed significantly to the recent challenges faced by young university graduates,” she said.
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