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In Businessolver's report, 54% of 1,000 workers say AI has hindered their careers. Among 300 executives, leaders of toxic cultures report strong growth almost twice as often (70% versus 36%). According to Businessolver, healthy financials can mask the trust eroding below the C-suite.

In Oakland, a requirement to retrain or redeploy workers displaced by AI made it into a three-year agreement after a 94.1% strike vote. That is roughly sixteen yes votes for every vote that wasn't a yes, and the deal came in the fourteen days before the strike. Pennsylvania, New York and Columbus suggest a protection lasts as long as whoever signed it, so reskilling designed before the bargaining table likely costs less than reskilling won during a labor dispute.

64% of leaders coached by both AI and their own manager rate their development as high quality, compared with 39% when AI is the only source: a 25-point gap. Just 1 leader in 4 sees their manager as an effective coach (data from DDI, a company that sells leadership development).

Across OECD countries, AI is used by 20% of firms and by 52% of those with 250 or more employees, 2.6 times the average. In 2025 growth is slowing even in the information and communication sector, the one that builds the technology. The report puts in-house skills at the top of the barriers, while the OECD press release leads with cloud and standards.

PwC is rolling out a critical thinking and judgment certification to more than 85,000 people by June 2027, an average of about 2,570 a week. The simulation reproduces the entry-level task that AI increasingly performs. The thesis is that judgment starts forming again when a new joiner challenges a real output and a senior responds.

In WTW's survey of 312 US employers, 20% currently use AI in benefits operationally, and the 72% expected within two years is 3.6 times today's share. Meanwhile, AI tool subscriptions tracked by SHRM have more than doubled in a year. The thesis is that employee trust decides the outcome, and employer surveys leave that trust unmeasured.

In the SHL survey (more than 2,000 workers in the US and UK, October 2026), 51% would ask for a substantial raise to return after being replaced by AI, while the other two demands concern a job guarantee and transparency. The proposed reading is that rehiring makes organizations pay for a skills-assessment error and a trust deficit. In the US, direct experience of being called back is about one and a half times the UK level.

Canva is cutting nearly 1,300 jobs, about 22% of its workforce, and paying each person six months' salary. That comes to about 650 salary-years, the annual cost of one in seven of the roughly 4,600 employees who stay. All of it goes to supporting people on the way out, while the CEO's public text gives the new organization a single line.

In London, every Wayve car for Uber carries a safety driver for now, so each car still takes one person. EV Compared reports more than 140,000 opt-ins, which is more than 9,300 people for each of the 15 cars, and nearly all rides still go to a regular driver. TfL says the cars have passed rigorous tests, while training, shifts and the split of liability for the people supervising them remain absent from the sources.

At least 80% of Anthropic's September 2026 headcount joined after December 2024, a calculation based on figures reported by Business Insider. The company also states that over 90% of the code added in September was written by Claude and that the value of its internal AI use, at list price, exceeds monthly pay excluding stock. The reported figures measure the machine and leave open the question of how people learn.