The formerly hypothetical cuts arrive, whether employees are ready or not.
Tuesday, the CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, confirmed the fears of many workers in the era of artificial intelligence: he said that he expects technology to lead to job cuts to the technology giant.
In his memo, who was Published online, Jassy has not announced immediate layoffs. He said that, over the next few years, “efficiency” gains “would result in a smaller workforce.
Marlo Lyons, certified executive coach, told Business Insider These jobs will inevitably change – including pure and simple disappearances. “So, your work is at risk? Absolutely. If you do not get on board with AI, yes, absolutely, you will lose your job.”
Amazon is now one of the largest companies to explicitly indicate that AI will have an impact on the jobs of its employees.
They are not all outright layoffs – at least not yet
Bi previously reported that the roles which include tasks that AI can perform disappear from employment sites faster than positions that have fewer tasks than AI can accomplish.
The CEO of Shopify said in April that before hiring anyone new, employees must prove that AI could not do the work better. Duolingo plans to eliminate entrepreneurs and replace them with AI. And the CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, said that the company may not hire engineers in 2025 because those who already on pay were much more thanks to AI tools.
The industry in which you are in the question. Office employees seem to be particularly at risk. At the end of May, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, suggested that AI could eliminate half of all entry -level levels White cervix jobs. Klarna CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, said earlier this month conduct a recession.
Christian Schneider, CEO of the startup based in New York Fileai, told Bi that he already saw job losses in the corners of the technological industry, and he expects the IA to exacerbate the trend.
“I totally expect a tightening,” he said. “I think that when we examine technological layoffs, it is so obvious that something changes.”
Melissa Swift, founder and CEO of Work Consultancy Anthrome Insight, told BI that productivity had not always increased to the same degree as technological progress. He “often checks slowly, like a roller coaster for the first large hill”.
Those who do not risk may be left behind. And refusing to recognize the risk does not make it disappear, said Lyons.
“So, if you think back the workplace, and how things are done – whether it is a workflow or team structures, or the same with AI – you can hold with white joints, but it will always happen around you,” Said Lyon.
Of course, all the jobs affected by AI progress will not mean that workers filling them will be dismissed. Jassy has recognized in his declaration that Amazon “will need fewer people who make jobs that are made today, and more people who make other types of jobs”.
Schneider said that some jobs will change so that the typical back office tasks and by heart will fall into AI and allow more workers to play roles oriented by people. Or, civil servants, once responsible for drawing and preparing data, could now go at the end of the process to, for example, check the quality of the results produced by AI.
While some jobs will disappear and others will evolve, said Schneider, workers are often good for adapting.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t want to underestimate people’s motivation,” he said.
