Reporting archive
Evidence on AI and work
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Powell flags job creation near zero as AI freezes hiring
Powell just legitimized AI-driven hiring freezes, warning job creation is “pretty close to zero” even as capex roars—reshaping incentives, labor metrics, and the path of rates.
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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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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.
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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.