Das Sterben von Einstiegsjobs: 43 % der CEOs planen, in den nächsten zwei Jahren Nachwuchskräfte abzubauen und die Einstellung auf ältere Arbeitskräfte auf mittlerer Ebene zu verlagern, da KI Routineaufgaben übernimmt, was zu einem katastrophalen Engpass für die zukünftige Belegschaft führt.
https://gizmodo.com/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608
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Submission Statement:
This newly released Oliver Wyman global survey reveals a deeply alarming trend for early-career workers: the share of CEOs looking to reduce junior roles over the next two years has more than doubled to 43% (up from 17% last year). As companies aggressively automate entry-level white-collar tasks using AI, they are shifting focus toward mid-level and senior employees who possess the real-world judgment that LLMs still lack. However, this cost-cutting strategy introduces a massive long-term vulnerability. By freezing out 20-somethings and eliminating on-the-job training, companies are effectively destroying their own future talent pipeline. What happens to the global economy when an entire generation of graduates cannot secure that crucial first job to build the experience companies actually look for? Are we looking at a permanent structural collapse of the corporate ladder? Let’s discuss.
Surely this trend will have no large scale negative impact across society /s
So if my kids can’t get jobs, I’m going to have to keep supporting them so I can’t retire and leave a gap in the workforce..
Or maybe, just maybe, all of these companies overhired when money was free during COVID, and the economy has begun retracting outside of this speculative AI bubble. And AI makes for a better narrative then “business isn’t looking great long term, time to reduce the headcount.”
Meanwhile older management just shake their fat faces, denying the obvious
Who’s buying the durable goods the Ai and robotics are producing.
I don’t understand who’s gonna buy the crap without jobs?
At my firm we were explicitly told not to hire juniors or associates, as it is cheaper for „other suckers to feed and water junior resources and we can reap it from their tree.“ ,according to HR.
Only issue is, it seems like everyone’s got the same policy.
Caveat… They’ll be paying those older, mid-level workers junior role salaries, and they’ll like it. 😶
I’ll take „how to (further) radicalize the youth“ for 400, Alex.
Not to mention these guys are eventually going to have a wave of retirements that leave huge gaps. Its **almost** like everyone doing this means we don’t train the create the mid-level workers. As usual, a stupid short sighted policy is enacted that hurts everybody.
Ok. I might be a lunatic, but how are you going to create those older mid-level workers, if you plan eliminating the jobs that create those older, mid-level workers?
Something similar happened in the early 00’s as companies offshored entry level roles. The mid and senior roles, particularly client facing roles, remained onshore but those have gradually been moving to those offshore sites as well.
The entry level roles that required either physical presence or lots of timezone overlap mostly remained but I guess AI will take those.
I’m an older worker and started my career in the late 90s before offshoring was the norm and I am hoping to exit the workforce before AI becomes the norm.
So whose supposed to work after the Juniors are gone? No one will have any training for jobs if there isn’t entry level anything, right?
This will trigger the Gen Z’ers to band together and create their own companies (and business models)..
We saw similar in 1990s with Gen X when the current workforce was just incompatible with Gen X’s vision..
[Why Entry Level Jobs Demand Years Of Experience – YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfBGoBEQxr8)
GO GET EM Gen Z !! (the investment capital is there waiting to ride you)
In my experience they left the individual contributors but removed a lot of first line manager positions, effectively pulling up the ladders into management
At least in software I felt like this was already a pattern before AI taking our jobs bs. Personally I’ve just seen after layoffs company pushed to getting more contractors over adding lots of full time employees.
As someone who is already senior I see this as a good thing for those already in. If you just stop adding new employees but the demand goes up, at some point you have more leverage in job negotiations when there becomes an issue down the line. With that said I’m 100% sure they will just start hiring a bunch of people from third world countries get them in in visas and just artificially keep those salaries lower, but maybe we get a politician between now and then that actually care about this sort of issue and makes it more expensive for companies to do stuff like that. I have no issue with companies getting talent they can’t get locally internationally, just can’t ever be financially better option to do that, than trying to get locally internationally talent or training it. If they say for this role that the median locally salary is this much need to make sure that this person from abroad is costing them decently more than anyone local, like at least the top 10% in pay across the industry in that location.
They allways wanted people with 2 degrees and 10 years experience for the junior pay.
It’s not even AI most of the time. The majority of these cuts are outsourcing to third world countries or dumping dead weight or vacancies to boost quarterly numbers and stock prices.
The problem I anticipate is if all of the junior jobs are in India, where will I be able to hire experienced senior staff?
It s time to start taxing those corporations offshoring jobs. Tax them equivalent to the income taxes lost due to offshore contracting.
…and most companies don’t want to hire 50+ year old employees either. So its 7-15 year experience, good enough, but not too good, or to expensive.
Goldilocks hiring.
What’s going to happen when boomers start to retire? Don’t we need to train their replacements?
One way I could imagine this going is that a college education just shifts up to mid-level work. You learn the basics quickly so you can supervise and judge AI work, then you spend more time on higher level managerial skills or advanced education in your field.
That still doesn’t solve the problem if there are fewer available jobs than people, but I’d imagine smart and enterprising college grads who get a relevant education will still be able to find work.
Refusing to train the next generation is totally not gonna cause a negative effect on society
This will definitely not cause any problems in the future. 🙄
Most CEOs are full of absolute shit anyway. Got to their position through nepotism or born wealthy already. Or from screwing over the innocent and kissing enough ass.
The fact that we turn to these people for economic and political answers is beyond pathetic and laughable.
Disclaimer: not all CEOs, mine is actually a pretty cool guy. But the rest need a reality check.
Thank God Millenials and Gen Z decided not to have kids.
There’s 50 year Olds who still don’t know how to upload something as a pdf or attach pdfs to an email and will print it out and scan it back in as an image file to their desktop so they can drag it into the email…
We are fucking cooked without junior roles…
Until the AI companies stop subsidizing everything and they realize humans are still cheaper
„Why are there no experienced mid-level candidates? I just don’t understand.“
~These fucking idiots in 10 years
Do you want a revolutionary class? Because this is how you get a revolutionary class.
Unfortunately, this is what I am seeing in my company. We recently got a mandate to limit the number of juniors to hire and utilize AI to enhance productivity. AI will just basically be trained by mid-level employees and then after that they will probably be let go. Problem is there is so much money going into AI both from people investing in those companies and the tech oligarchs getting huge contracts. I don’t see this changing until the AI bubble pops
DOGE led to some of my government agency’s boss‘ interns being terminated, and later she decided to resign herself in protest. Pretty shortsighted „efficiency“ to dump potential replacements to increasingly liquidated federal jobs.
Colleges and universities will have to innovate around this constraint – graduating undergrads with real work experience, like experience acquired through co-ops.
It is no longer acceptable to graduate from college with only theory under your belt
This MBA brand of tunnel vision is what made me realize that the CEO title does not correlate with god-tier decision-making ability. They are as dumb as everyone else, though in many cases more eloquent and silver tongued.
yeah, but thats „future“ workforce, I have to improve numbers this quarter and if I don’t do it, someone else will.