Forbes November 11, 2024
Your boss just paid $495 for another AI conference ticket. Three of your coworkers got laid off last month. Your company’s job posts now list AI proficiency as a requirement for every role. See where this is going?
The numbers are brutal. McKinsey predicts 400 million jobs will be gone by 2030. Google sugar-coats it: only 69% of jobs will change or vanish, the rest will be “enhanced”. But walk into any startup office and count the empty desks. Those jobs didn’t wait until 2030.
AI tools cost $99 a month. A full-time employee costs $5,000. Your manager’s doing that math right now. Company updates used to brag about headcount growth. Now they brag about efficiency gains and AI-powered scaling....