{
  "id": 11898387,
  "title": "UAE labour market: How AI is reshaping jobs and services",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/04/uae-labour-market-how-ai-is-reshaping-jobs-and-services",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-04T09:35:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/technology/uae-labour-market-how-ai-is-reshaping-jobs-and-services-1.500697813"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The UAE government is embracing artificial intelligence to modernize its labour market and service delivery, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE). AI has moved from a futuristic concept to a vital component of government operations, driving efficiency and productivity while ensuring customer rights, data protection, and trust in services.\n\nMoHRE's transformation extends beyond digitising processes; it involves redesigning service delivery, decision-making, human resource management, and labour market regulation. The ministry's AI-powered system has eliminated procedures for up to 100% of services, cut required documents and visits, and significantly sped up transaction processing. It processed 11 million transactions using AI, reducing review times from 10 minutes to under a minute.\n\nThe AI-driven system for occupational health and safety inspections detects violations and generates reports, reducing procedures, speeding up decisions, and minimizing human error. A risk-prediction system identifies establishments needing proactive inspections, dynamically determining risk factors to improve inspection efficiency.\n\nIn September 2026, MoHRE reported a 15% decline in private-sector establishments violating labour-market legislation in the first half of the year compared to 2025. Inspection visits increased to 212,000, focusing on higher-risk establishments. AI also aids decision-making through a \"Labour Market Simulation Model\" predicting economic outcomes of policies, enabling proactive policy-making.\n\nA work-permit quota system using AI has reduced the time to issue quotas from up to 10 days to near-instant, cutting human review effort by 56% and procedural requirements by 100%. Around 900,000 quotas were issued between February and October 2025 using this system, shifting human effort from routine tasks to analysis, decision-making, supervision, and oversight.",
  "summary": "The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has affirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the future, but has become an integral part of the present-day government workplace and a key driver of service development, efficiency and productivity. At the same time, the ministry stressed the importance of using modern technologies safely and responsibly, ensuring…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}