Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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IMF finds 3.6% fewer roles five years after AI
The IMF just put numbers to the AI jobs debate: broad new skills grow headcount and pay, while AI-specific hiring thins the ranks—and the five-year timer is already running.
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Meta cuts VR jobs as Ray-Ban AI glasses ramp
Meta just redirected a thousand-plus jobs from world‑building in VR to AI that can live on your face and in your hand.
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Tech tops London finance vacancies at 16 percent
When software roles become the biggest line item on London’s finance job boards, the org chart—and the power—shift to those who build and govern the machines.
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Month-one offers for 20–24-year-olds drop to 14.4% in AI-exposed jobs
AI’s labor shock is showing up at the door, not the balance sheet: fewer young entrants into exposed roles, unchanged exits, and a gate that won’t open.
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Raises go to the people who write runbooks
This year’s AI bottleneck isn’t silicon—it’s the people who can orchestrate agents into reliable, measured throughput, and they’re about to reshuffle hiring, metrics, and power.
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Angi’s 8-K ties 350 layoffs to AI, $70–80M savings
Angi just put “AI‑driven efficiency” into its 8‑K and 350 roles off its payroll, turning automation from a pilot into policy.
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Cheap drafts, expensive judgment in the Claude Code workplace
AI is boosting throughput while hollowing out the feeling of mastery—unless leaders rewrite roles, metrics, and status.
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55,000 AI layoffs, 245,000 ordinary cuts, productivity still flat
If AI is really driving the layoffs, where’s the productivity spike—and why do the announcements read like cover for mundane belt‑tightening?
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Financial Times letter warns productivity rises while paychecks vanish
What if AI nails the supply side but severs the paycheck pipeline that makes growth real?
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The 22% disruption tempo behind every hiring plan
WEF’s net job gains hide a harsher truth: the entry ramp is narrowing, signals are inflating, and the only number that matters now is the conversion rate from roles created to roles filled.