Layoffs, Job Insecurity & The Future of Work Feat. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

It feels like for the past year and a half every month another company is announcing layoffs BUT what is actually happening in the job market? This week, award-winning economist and author Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman joins Chidinma on the podcast to unpack the shifts happening across work and the economy.

They compare what current labour-market trends are telling us in Canada and the United States, why job insecurity can feel so widespread even when the data doesn’t necessarily show a massive increase in layoffs, and what prolonged periods of unemployment and slower hiring mean for workers. They also explore how economic uncertainty is affecting Black communities and Black women in particular, the pressure to choose between traditional employment and entrepreneurship, what gets lost when “start your own business” becomes the answer to job insecurity, and the role Black communities can play in the future global economy.

Finally, Anna and Chidinma SPECULATE on what current trends may indicate about the future of work. — Connect with "But What Do I Know?" Podcast: Leave A Voicenote: Podcast Community: ⁠ Subscribe and watch this episode on YouTube: IG: @bwdikpodcast Tiktok: @bwdikpodcast — Connect with Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman: @itsafronomics Anna’s Work: — Episode Credits: Executive Producer: Chidinma Azubuike Audio and Video Editor: Aleks van der Westhuizen Podcast Theme Music: Hamid Bello Learn more about your ad choices. Visit