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Rampell: AI software will make human workers ten times more productive
“Largely what it means is that people are going to be like 10 times more productive where I can't hire anybody to do this job, but I can hire AI to do it.”
Karp: Leaders become far more valuable as software automates the rest
“Actually, the interesting thing is, workers become more valuable, like, actually trained workers become more valuable. This is exactly the opposite of what people are saying, but it's true. The person at the top is actually crazy valuable. People with technica…”
Stafford: AI Will Force Workers to Specialize Rather Than Generalize
“It's gonna require people to be more specialized rather than generalists.”
Perel: Workers bring an 'unofficial resume' of relationship history to work
“I always say we bring two CVs, the official CV that has the resume of your titles and your job, and the unofficial resume, which is your relationship history. And that relationship history is everything about how you actually show up at work, relate to authori…”
Snapshift Workers Earn 50% Above the National Industry Rate
“They're getting paid near instantly through us, earning on average over 50% more than the national industry rate.”
Brown: AI automation will disadvantage workers who prefer rote tasks
“The thing is, not everybody is a creative. Not everybody wants to do something other than rote tasks. There are a lot of people who find comfort in that type of work, and that's what they want to do, and they're not suited for a world where they get half their…”
Klubeck: Workers Resent Opaque Corporate Systems, Not Labor Itself
“I don't think fundamentally people don't want to work. What I think people are upset with is feeling trapped by work as a pawn in somebody else's game that isn't transparent, isn't digestible, isn't accessible.”
Baker: AI productivity redistributes income from displaced workers to adopting companies
“Productivity is income saved by companies that use AI and income lost by the workers that they no longer have to hire. You know, it's a force that redistributes income within the economy”
El Kaliouby: Workers who partner with AI will outcompete those who don't
“And I really believe that the folks who figure out how to partner with AI to be more productive or more creative or more connected or more empathetic are going to do better and be more competitive and more marketable and more kind of in demand than people who …”
Calacanis: SVB contagion will kill tens of thousands of jobs
“Tens of thousands of highly paid workers, and not just tech workers, are going to be out of jobs, and they don't have jobs waiting for them at Amazon, or Google to bail them out, and this is the start of a contagion, if it doesn't get stopped, I believe that.”
Puri: Workers Forfeit Up to $400M Yearly in Unused FSA Cash
“Workers forfeit as much as four hundred million a year in unused account cash.”
Herzog: Firms will not rehire furloughed workers post-crisis
“The firms that are, you know, laying off and furloughing tens of thousands of workers they're not going to rehire them, unfortunately, at the end of this crisis.”
Rabins: 60% of enterprise workers worldwide do not work at desks
“In particular, if you think about enterprises or corporations, 60% of workers worldwide work standing up. You know, not at desks.”
Dalio: Coders riding algorithms will displace workers and cause economic bifurcation
“There are going to be people who are riding the algorithms that will replace the people who are doing jobs. And so there's going to be a bifurcation, and I think that learning how to code is like learning how to read and write for the next generation”