Workforce

“Considering that they employ like two thirds of the workforce in Europe, they create 85% of the new jobs in Europe, and still they don't have this kind of basic infrastructure of external financing to grow and do much more.”

“So, you know, the energy sector, infrastructure, construction, manufacturing, fabrication a lot of these industries, 90% of the workforce, Is not really using a computer at that level.”

“When you're starting off from scratch and you're an AI native company, it's easier to set up things in a way that you don't need to bring on humans to do that. Whereas if you're a much larger company that has tens of thousands of employees, cutting down 10, 15…”

“We are going to more and more bifurcate to folks that just want to collect a paycheck so the agent doesn't displace them, to folks that want to change the world, and that's fine.”

“There'll be 2.2 billion of these agents entering the workforce in the next couple of years. And so, you know, there's going to be a lot more agents than there will be people.”

“Turns out companies don't really like firing people. Companies do fire people if they have to, but I've actually never met a CFO that got excited about firing 30% of the workforce.”

“I think displacement in a lot of roles is going to happen very quickly, and it's going to be very painful and a large political problem.”

“This will, of course, will mean a meaningful shift in the workforce. Companies will hire fewer people, so you get more smaller companies.”

“I hate the headlines that are like, it's going to replace jobs. Or like, it's going to unemployed like two thirds of the workforce. Like, I don't think that's true.”

“The workforce has aged out.”

“And so I just think this idea that boom, 20% of the workforce is going to be unemployed in two years. I just don't think that it's going to work that way.”

“Those who use AI and are able to integrate it will be able to continue in the workforce on a go-forward basis. For my company and for others. And those who don't, won't.”

“And 100% of our workforce that people have never set foot inside a factory before.”

“And we really believe in using the best of software and robotics to give the new workforce 10 times more efficiency with superpowers, you know, versus like replacing them entirely, you know.”

“The reality is most of our paying customers right now are still people in the workforce, people on sales teams, marketing teams, venture capital teams, whatever it may be.”

“Every senior who's on Boodlebox this year, every second year MBA, every third year law student, next July, they're going to be part of the workforce. They're going to carry this with them into the workforce and go forward.”

“Do we have AI products that are able to be maximally used by workforces? And the answer to this is right now is no. Clearly there is a gap between what People could use these things for and what they're using them for right now.”

“And here, there are eighty million workers, 60% of the workforce. For them, technology hasn't really changed anything materially in the past decade.”

“And I feel like there's a huge shift coming in the American and I think globally from these generations in which people just don't want to work.”

“I think the workforce is going to become even more diversified worldwide to where I think even like, even, you know, right now it's, you know, at first it was manufacturing jobs moving off. Sorry. I started looking down again. That's the first is the manufactu…”

“So you've, we've got, like, 21 years indoctrinated in getting a homework assignment, going away, and coming back. And then we're like, we throw you into the workforce, and we're like, by the way, now your job is to cheat as much as you can. I'm gonna give you …”

“But I think for most college students, probably over 95% of college students are there to prepare themselves for the workforce and a four year degree to do that seems a little misplaced in In a world where the rate of change is so high, right?”

“The Association of Builders and Contractors actually published, there's about 650,000 people that are missing from the workforce.”

“And, you know, that's 36% of the workforce. So it's a fairly large percentage of the population.”

“The ROI for many of these degrees has been negative. You make less money than you would have if you were actually in the workforce earning an on-the-ground experience and progressing your career.”

“Shopify just laid off 10% of its workforce, about a thousand people on Tuesday.”

“I'm not too concerned about that. I'm pretty confident that we'll have ways in which people can earn livings.”

“And there are forty four million black, Latino, Hispanic, and Native American students and professionals in the workforce that, that that exists as well.”

“And of course some very naive ways of counting lead to the conclusion that it's no more than five or 10%, which I think is bullshit. So my, the number I tend to believe is somewhere between 30 to 40% appropriately defined are free agents, and these people may …”