00:00 Speaker A
This episode is brought to you by the number 40%. This is the percentage of employers in the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future Jobs Report who expect their workforce to be reduced in an environment where AI can automate jobs. The report predicts that by 2030, 22% of jobs will be destroyed, 92 million roles will be eliminated, and 170 million new roles will be created.
00:23 Speaker A
This equates to an increase of approximately 78 million net jobs. However, 2025 saw some pretty drastic personnel changes. So how do you expect this to play out heading into the new year of 2026?We’ve got Challenger Gray and Christmas support. 150,000 people will be laid off and one of the reasons is said to be AI.
00:41 Speaker B
Everyone is blaming AI. That’s how I say it.
00:46 Speaker A
But isn’t that a liability?
00:47 Speaker B
Well, in some cases, yes, but keep in mind that AI is replacing tasks, not necessarily replacing human jobs. Many of these companies have two paths. One of the things I heard from the chairman and CEO of BlackRock is, no, I’m sorry, the chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs says,
01:05 Speaker B
Listen, yes, jobs will be lost, but what we really want to do is use this opportunity to increase production capacity.
01:13 Speaker A
Is it for productivity or what?
01:14 Speaker B
To improve productivity. So if we could take these tasks off your desk and get you to do something else that directly leads to our bottom line, what are you, what could we accomplish? more.
01:25 Speaker B
So the first thing that comes to mind is that we should do more. But many of these companies don’t think that way. They look at it as, well, we’re going to, look, we’re going to light it, we’re going to replace it, look, we’re going to get it.
01:32 Speaker B
Now, let’s see who wins at the end of the day. But I think it’s going to be businesses, small businesses, large businesses, large businesses that will do well when we decide to ramp up our production capacity and really look at our workforce and decide that we can improve not just AI, but skills in the areas that we think we’ll need moving forward.
