Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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When AI Cuts Jobs, Who’s Left Holding the Bag?
As major corporations lay off thousands, the role of AI in the job market raises urgent questions about the future of work.
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Only 2.5% of Remote Labor Index work won acceptance
A benchmark that pays for deliverables found today’s agents can only bill for a sliver of real work—about 2.5%—resetting the automation narrative.
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AI makes procurement the org designer, CFOs bank gains
AI just turned “do more with less” into headcount policy—and the new org architects sit in procurement.
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Only 7% tell staff where AI-saved hours should go
AI is gifting teams 1.5 hours a day—and most companies are squandering it in meetings, handoffs, and Slack.
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Amazon ties 30,000 corporate cuts to AI agents
Amazon just turned AI from a productivity slide into a headcount decision—and every board now has cover.
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From not real work to wage insurance line items
A weekend soundbite became the scaffold for policy, proving that in the AI-and-jobs fight, language moves money faster than models do.
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Salesforce adds 3,000 to 5,000 sellers as support automates
Salesforce is automating support while hiring thousands of AEs, betting AI will flood the funnel but leave trust-heavy closing to humans.
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Stanford and World Bank data show wages up, jobs intact
AI’s first labor shock isn’t layoffs—it’s a bidding war for people who can make the models matter.
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From Hard Hats to High Tech: The Real Blueprint of AI’s Job Landscape
As AI reshapes the job market, new opportunities emerge alongside the challenges of displacement and reskilling.
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OpenAI’s Lighthouse brings 4,000 union jobs to Wisconsin
AI’s jobs story just moved from spreadsheets to switchyards as OpenAI, Oracle, and Vantage drop a near‑gigawatt “Lighthouse” campus on Lake Michigan, hiring by the thousands.