Generative AI was sold as a productivity fix, yet the first real-world data shows developers slowing down, graduates iced out, and even Microsoft swapping humans for the very tools they built. At the same time, managers are burning out under harsher performance curves while workers quietly crack under the strain.
Stack those pressures on a fresh round of return-to-office edicts and a Gen Z cohort that answers phone calls with dead silence, and you have a workplace built on crossed wires.
Below, four themes to watch and how to turn the mess into an employer-brand edge.
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