340,000 Jobs, One April Deadline: The AI Tools Saudi Private-Sector Companies Are Using to Survive Nitaqat Mutawar
On April 15, 2026, thousands of Saudi employers discovered that employees they had counted toward Saudization quotas for years had vanished from the system overnight. Nitaqat Mutawar is driving Saudi private-sector HR teams toward AI recruiting tools to meet 340,000 new jobs by 2028.