Spain ends 2025 with half a million more jobs and record number of women working
Spain closes 2025 with half a million more jobs and a record number of women in work, but job insecurity and doubts about the data source cloud the figures.
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Employment hits records in 2025: half a million more jobs and a historic high for women
Spain ends 2025 with half a million more jobs and a new historic high of women in work. The figure, reported by eldiario.es, has been met with the usual scepticism. Not because of the number itself, but because of what lies behind it.
The source and the definition of "working"
Part of the analysis questions the origin of the data outright: it is linked to the CIS (Spain's official sociology research body) and its president Tezanos, which for many disqualifies it from the start. The awkward question is simpler: what counts as employment? Some answer with irony that civil servants "don't work, they obey". Others point out that the statistics include precarious occupations: Glovo delivery riders, strawberry pickers, cleaners, receptionists, Amazon couriers. "A real labour powerhouse," they quip. Working and remaining poor, living in a storage room or in your car, hardly sounds like a success story.
AI as smoke and mirrors
The antiestéticar of technological unemployment deflates in the light of these numbers. Some see the alarmism around artificial intelligence as "a theatre show to make money", yet another bubble. The real employment data, they say, disproves the apocalypse.
An unconvincing close to the year
"Worse than past ones, better than future ones": this cyclical summary says almost everything. The record for women and the half a million jobs are real in the statistics, but the underlying unease does not go away. The good figures do not erase a Christmas season described as sad and shabby.
Spain ends 2025 with half a million more jobs and a new historic high of women in work. The figure, reported by eldiario.es, has been met with the usual scepticism. Not because of the number itself, but because of what lies behind it.
The source and the definition of "working"
Part of the analysis questions the origin of the data outright: it is linked to the CIS (Spain's official sociology research body) and its president Tezanos, which for many disqualifies it from the start. The awkward question is simpler: what counts as employment? Some answer with irony that civil servants "don't work, they obey". Others point out that the statistics include precarious occupations: Glovo delivery riders, strawberry pickers, cleaners, receptionists, Amazon couriers. "A real labour powerhouse," they quip. Working and remaining poor, living in a storage room or in your car, hardly sounds like a success story.
AI as smoke and mirrors
The antiestéticar of technological unemployment deflates in the light of these numbers. Some see the alarmism around artificial intelligence as "a theatre show to make money", yet another bubble. The real employment data, they say, disproves the apocalypse.
An unconvincing close to the year
"Worse than past ones, better than future ones": this cyclical summary says almost everything. The record for women and the half a million jobs are real in the statistics, but the underlying unease does not go away. The good figures do not erase a Christmas season described as sad and shabby.
Summary of a discussion on Burbuja.info - Foro de economía, actualidad y política., translated from Spanish and reviewed before publication. Read the full discussion (10 replies).
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