The World Economic Forum’s 2025 Future of Jobs Report found that as many as 41% of employers were planning on downsizing their workforce due to AI. That number is even higher in the United States, where 48% of respondents said they were planning on adopting the strategy. But while that statistic may be concerning, it does not necessarily mean that there is an impending employment crisis, according to Till Leopold, a lead author of the study and the Head of Work, Wages, and Job Creation at the World Economic Forum. “We’re not looking at this famous ‘jobs apocalypse’ scenario,” Leopold tells CNBC Make It. Rather, Leopold thinks that it’s an issue of upskilling. The Future of Jobs Report found that 77% of employers are looking at upskilling their current […]
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