Some of the big four companies are having to train new recruits with basic communications skills necessary for the workforce. Is it because students were shut off during Covid or is there something more? This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston talks to Caroline Reidy of the HR Suite about what young people may have lost. With the EU’s highest court set to hold a hearing at later this month on the €13 Billion Euro - Apple tax case, Lorcan Allen of the Sunday Business Post reminds us of the background, and assess what might be in the final ruling on the world’s biggest-ever antitrust case. And finally, Machines are learning more than before, while humans learn less. The issue is already hitting Hollywood hills as writers’ strike for safeguards to stop its members’ work being replaced by AI in the future. Mandy talks to Marina Fang of the Huffington Post.