Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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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.
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Salesforce bets $15 billion to remake San Francisco jobs
Salesforce isn’t automating San Francisco; it’s trying to make the city the operating system for agents—and the jobs that run them.
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NITI Aayog roadmap targets up to four million AI jobs
India’s AI roadmap swaps layoff angst for agency, aiming to convert routine IT/CX roles into system-level AI work by pairing a national talent mission with an open compute commons.
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Gartner says 30% of largest economies will mandate human quotas by 2032
If Gartner’s right, the next big AI constraint isn’t compute—it’s proving a qualified human actually took the risk.
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Queues shrink, headcount holds at Google Cloud customers
When Google tells boards that AI widens service before it trims staff, the budget math—and the layoff timeline—shifts.
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Entry-level goes missing as budgets shift to compute
The entry-level isn’t being fired—it’s being outbid by software, with training debt and downtime risk quietly stacking up.
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Small businesses can buy what replaced 400 Acrisure accountants
Acrisure didn’t just automate 400 accounting jobs—it packaged the work and plans to sell it.
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Term premium, not ChatGPT, is chilling hiring plans
Kashkari flips the AI layoff script: the data-center capex boom is fattening the term premium and freezing hiring even as the Fed nudges rates down.