Layoffs Despite High Profits: What This Has to Do with AI

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    "title": "Layoffs Despite High Profits: What This Has to Do with AI - watson.ch",
    "excerpt": "The financial and insurance industry is not one that would be associated with a high unemployment rate. It is all the more surprising that the rate is currently exceptionally high precisely there. And although prominent in the media, UBS with its Credit Suisse integration is not solely responsible for this situation: Many banks and insurance companies are currently laying off staff – and consistently so, despite simultaneously high profits. Several large banks and insurance companies have announced job cuts in the last or current year. These include, for example:\nWhat many might find unpalatable is, however, even understandable for the Swiss Bank Employees' Association (SBPV). When asked about the job cuts at Raiffeisen, SBPV President Michael von Felten recently expressed annoyance to CH Media: The way the cuts were communicated was \"bad style\". But the staff reduction at Raiffeisen in general was also \"problematic\": \"It is happening without any necessity, simultaneously with a half-year profit that is higher than in the previous year,\" said von Felten. However, to watson, the SBPV generally shows understanding for employers in the industry: \"High profits and job cuts are not necessarily a contradiction,\" says Natalia Ferrara, Vice President and Head of Social Partnership at the SBPV. \"Swiss banks and insurance companies are under increasing international competitive and cost...",
    "summary": "UBS is cutting jobs in Switzerland as part of its integration of Credit Suisse.",
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    "article_sentence": "This is also evident at UBS: While the bank is cutting jobs overall in Switzerland, it has simultaneously announced that it will hire additional client advisors in the Asia-Pacific region.",
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