How AI is changing the modern workforce

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The approach also allows journalists like me to focus on in-depth stories that require more work, including research, data gathering, and interviews with sources.

Guest writer Andrea Baronchelli, CEO of Aspire, has seemingly observed a similar impact of AI on the workplace, as he explains in today’s Top Story.

He sees how AI is changing traditional ways of working and prompting companies to restructure instead of simply eliminating jobs. Aspire’s data supports this, showing firms are hiring fewer full-time employees and increasingly turning to freelancers.

With smaller core teams, these companies bring in specialist talent as needed, with AI systems working alongside them. This also makes starting a business less expensive.

The data also shows 94% of newly incorporated businesses on Aspire had 10 or fewer employees, and one in three of these companies had a solo founder. The firm’s data is beginning to reveal a link between AI investment and business growth, too.

These findings suggest that while AI may replace certain jobs, it’s also creating new and different opportunities for workers.

Read more below.

Jofie Yordan, journalist

Top Story

AI isn’t shrinking work. It’s changing who does it and how

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