and kurt schoffer, who runs the biggest company in the world, with a majority of autistic staff, more than 400 in his company alone. also on the show, the big boss of one of the world s largestjobs companies, recruit holdings, which operates in 60 countries, joins me to talk about how to fill the skills gap and how to spot lies on people s job applications. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, it may never have been a more challenging time for companies. and while rising costs and interest rates certainly dominate the headlines, companies themselves say that being able to employ enough of the rightly skilled people is one of the biggest problems they face. in particular, they need more people with technical and communication skills. you know, in america, the unemployment rate is atjust under 4%, and almost 70% of companies say they have trouble recruiting all the staff they need. that s11i% more th
of commerce, about their skills gap findings. plus, i speak to these two. there they are, lars backstrom, an autistic data analyst, and kurt schaeffer, who runs the biggest company in the world with a majority of autistic staff, more than 400 in his company alone. also on the show, the big boss of one of the world s largestjobs companies, recruit holdings, which operates in 60 countries, joins me to talk about how to fill the skills gap and how to spot lies on people s job applications. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, it may never have been a more challenging time for companies. and while rising costs and interest rates certainly dominate the headlines, companies themselves say that being able to employ enough of the rightly skilled people is one of the biggest problems they face. in particular, they need more people with technical and communication skills. you know, in america, the unemployme
wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, it may never have been a more challenging time for companies. and while rising costs and interest rates certainly dominate the headlines, companies themselves say that being able to employ enough of the rightly skilled people is one of the biggest problems they face. in particular, they need more people with technical and communication skills. you know, in america, the unemployment rate is atjust under 4%, and almost 70% of companies say they have trouble recruiting all the staff they need. that s11i% more than two years ago. in europe, they re calling 2023 the so called year of skills, because more than three quarters of companies, they report difficulties finding workers with the right skill set. and a quarter of small and medium sized companies say that that is their biggest problem. here in the uk, it s a similar picture to america. unemployment is hovering
transgender and nonbinary people are those who identify with a different gender to the sex that they were assigned when they were born. here in the uk alone, more than a quarter of a million people identify as transgender. that s according to the official government census. and in the united states, it s estimated more than 2 million people identify as transgender. just recently, uganda became the latest country where strict or stricter anti lg btq legislation is being introduced, laws which, in this case, include the death penalty. but even in america, transgender adults are twice as likely to be out of work. when they do find a job, they earn a third less than non transgender people with the same qualifications. and more than half say that they re not comfortable being out as transgender at work. that s according to a report by the global consultancy group mckinsey and company. i m going to catch up with the author of that report in just a minute. but before that, we re goi
and stop them claiming asylum here. now on bbc news, talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. what do we want? trans rights! when do we want it? now! transgender people and their struggle in the workplace. as pride month kicks off around the world, we re going to ask why many don t come out, and what happens at work when they do. could including more trans people in the workplace add billions a year to our economies? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two, there they are. jill zucker, author of a landmark report on the issue for mckinsey and company in new york, and caroline farberger, who came out as a transgender woman, and now runs one of europe s leading technology investment companies. also on the show, a story of how one of the world s most powerful businessmen was brought down when a newspaper published details of his private life, outing him