Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Amazon’s plan to avoid 500,000 hires by 2033
Amazon just put dates and dollars on a plan to scale logistics by skipping hundreds of thousands of hires—precision automation as a headcount strategy.
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Citi’s $25M bet on AI-ready first jobs
Citi’s $25M is a push to preinstall apprenticeship—training low-income young adults on AI-era workflows—and a challenge to employers to rebuild the first rung of work.
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Gartner’s 0/75/25 becomes your 2030 IT org chart
Gartner just put a date on the end of unassisted IT work—and it rewires your hiring plan from the help desk up.
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AI runs on paid learning time and steel-toed boots
An op-ed from Google’s chief economist and Diane Coyle reframes AI as a task editor—and dares Washington to fund paid, portable, verifiable learning to make the edits stick.
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Figma hires AI directors post‑IPO as throughput drives demand
Dylan Field just flipped AI from a cost cutter to a demand engine—and says that means more hires, not fewer.
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Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 7, accelerates algorithmic HR in California
Newsom’s veto didn’t kill bossware—it killed the speed limit, ushering in a year of fast, opaque AI in HR.
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AI: The Job Market’s Newest Juggler—Balancing Layoffs and Opportunities
This week, the AI job market reveals a tangled web of layoffs and new opportunities, challenging our perceptions of automation’s impact.
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Amazon turns PXT into a platform and trims 15%
Amazon is recoding HR into a platform, signaling AI-driven cuts of up to 15% in PXT and a shift from people doing tasks to systems running them.
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AFL-CIO turns RFPs into worker power on AI
Labor just rewired workplace AI by dragging decisions into design and procurement, putting workers’ hands on the override and vendors on the hook.
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Goldman Sachs ties hiring to OneGS 3.0 AI rollout
Goldman used an earnings beat to roll out an AI-first operating plan that trims transaction roles, rewires workflows, and hires in deployment waves with risk and governance baked in.