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Jonas Prising

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, MANPOWERGROUP

Search every verified Jonas Prising interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jonas Prising, Chairman and CEO of ManpowerGroup, discussed the challenges and opportunities in the evolving labor market during an August 2026 appearance on the World Economic Forum's Meet the Leader podcast. He cited economic cycles, geopolitical shifts, and demographic changes as factors driving hiring pressures, and said that while AI can make recruitment faster, it does not necessarily make it more accurate. Prising stated that leaders have done "a poor job" articulating how AI will benefit companies and workers, and emphasized that human judgment remains essential for assessing potential and fit. He also highlighted underutilized talent pools, including women, the long-term unemployed, and youth, as key opportunities for workforce participation, and called for redesigning work so people can grow with it. On ManpowerGroup's Q2 2026 earnings call, Prising reported on the company's operational performance amid soft staffing volumes' and shared updates on its transformation initiatives. During the call, company leadership noted a 67% decrease in time-to-fill for roles using early AI-powered screening and interview tools, and mentioned expectations of $50–100 million in partnership-driven revenue for the year, with nearly 100 qualified leads in the pipeline. Prising also discussed the company's operational efficiencies and longer-term objectives related to AI adoption and workforce development.

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“The jobseeker experience frankly with the technology has not gotten better, it's gotten worse. From an organizational perspective, there's been a massive increase in applications to any particular job posting. And that's because job seekers are deploying agentic AI and AI to automate their job applications. They match those job applications and those resumes to search words that they are seeing in the job ads. So wha”

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