
[17 AUG] PAPER CUT: Traffic Lights, Shrinking Giants, Skill Truths
Surveillance is in, hiring is out, and skill beats swagger. This week: dashboards at the door, employers on a diet, and the real currency in the AI age.
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AI is axing entry-level jobs while bosses preach well-being they won’t promote. Meanwhile, return-to-office edicts keep mutating and Gen Z is staring everyone down. Here’s the week, minus the corporate cosplay.
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Consultancies are shedding humans. Résumés are choking on AI sludge. Culture is fraying in the open‑plan circus. Skills, not CVs, decide who stays employed. This week we slice through the noise so your talent strategy does not bleed later.
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AI is being called “intern-level.” Entry-level jobs are evaporating. McKinsey’s bots make decks faster than your grads. And Gen Z? They’re networking like it’s a survival sport. Welcome to the economy where “future-proof” just means “not fired yet.”
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