Nov 25, 2025 12:05:00

It is pointed out that replacing employees with AI will result in huge losses in the future

Many companies are implementing large-scale layoffs due to the introduction of AI, with Amazon's CEO

stating that 'AI will lead to increased workforce reductions over the next few years due to operational efficiency improvements,' and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, which sells customer management software, stating that 'AI has enabled us to cut 4,000 jobs.' While laying off employees and adopting AI can reduce immediate expenses, the trade-off could be a significant downside in the future, according to a report by the American news broadcaster CNBC.

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According to CNBC, while introducing AI and reducing staffing may result in short-term savings, it could disrupt the talent pipeline for truly important middle management positions within a company in the coming years. While AI will streamline operations, it is possible that AI will undermine the promotion process that traditional employees have used to advance through the accumulation of skills and work experience they have acquired through their work. According to ' The Future of Jobs Report 2025 ,' published in January 2025 by the World Economic Forum, AI and digitalization are expected to destroy approximately 40% of core worker skills by 2030.

Matt Bean, an associate professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said, 'The way to develop senior employees is not to go to school and learn, but to work with more knowledgeable people and learn on the job.' The process in which novices grow by collaborating with experts and overcoming obstacles will no longer be maintained as AI saves time and costs.

A paper published in August 2025 by a research team at Stanford University revealed that one of the facts about how the spread of generative AI is affecting the labor market is that 'employment of early-career workers aged 22 to 25 has declined significantly.' On the other hand, it was also found that employment of experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow. The research team saw the changes in employment of early-career workers as 'an early sign of changes in the labor market due to AI' and warned that significant and disproportionate impacts are beginning to occur.

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Bean therefore says that companies need to adopt new technology while also rebuilding workflows to allow beginners to participate. Morley Kinder, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution , a US think tank, also points out that societal measures are needed, saying, 'We need some kind of policy tool or third-party research to determine whether companies are simply cutting staff to optimize short-term outcomes.'

Bean cites 'meta-learning' or 'meta-skills' as skills that workers should acquire. As technologies that promote automation and efficiency are increasingly introduced into the labor market, simply asking for tasks that are not currently automated will likely result in workers being pushed out at some point. Therefore, Bean says that in the future labor market, it will become increasingly important for humans and AI to learn how to manage the output of AI and for humans and AI to work together.

'Generally, if you want to grow healthily in the medium and long term, it makes sense to want to retain as much talent as possible and pivot and move forward in the direction you need to go,' Bean said.