Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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CFOs unlock AI growth by putting it on the P&L
The difference between AI that prints value and AI that hollows teams isn’t compute—it’s who owns the decisions and how you price the humans in the loop.
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Allianz Partners ties 1,500–1,800 job cuts to AI
Allianz Partners dropped the euphemisms and quantified it: AI now does the triage, translation, and routine claims—so 1,500–1,800 European roles are going.
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LinkedIn and Indeed data power OECD’s two-tier skill map
OECD’s Employment Outlook swaps prophecy for proof, using real-time postings to chart a two-tier AI skill demand while showing productivity climbing in digital cores without a hiring boom—yet.
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Microsoft shifts spend to data centers and GPUs, cuts 4,800 roles
Budgets, not bots, are rewriting Microsoft: Xbox is being flattened and partially offloaded while headcount and spend pivot to data centers and enterprise AI.
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MTurk sign-ups end July 30 as work shifts to SageMaker Ground Truth
As MTurk stops taking new customers, the open crowd gives way to audited, badge-access labor—and the on-ramp to digital work narrows.
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Warsh’s Fed asks how $0 advice reshapes payrolls
When advice costs nothing and megawatts don’t, the Fed’s definition of slack—and your next rung up—are both on the line.
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Musk backs Palihapitiya as cheap judgment makes work optional
If AI makes judgment cheap and robots do the lifting, the real battle isn’t tasks—it’s who owns the pipes that pay you.
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ChatGPT writes the minutes, assistants set the agenda
When the laptop writes the minutes, the job shifts from keystrokes to judgment, and not everyone gets a soft landing.
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Payroll gains hide 28,000 monthly losses in finance, information
The headline payrolls still smile, but finance and information are quietly shedding about 28,000 jobs a month as AI-ready, tightly documented workflows make the cuts show up in the footnotes.
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21,000 firms show heavy AI spenders grow headcount 10% in two years
Follow the invoices: firms that spend seriously on generative AI add headcount—especially at the entry level—after a 6-12 month learning curve.