Entry-level gap

A drop in hiring for early-career roles in jobs exposed to AI, as AI takes over the routine work that junior people used to learn on.

Also called

  • Missing rung
  • Canaries in the coal mine

Avoid

  • Broken rung (McKinsey and LeanIn use it for women passed over for their first promotion to manager)

Related

  • The great flattening A wave of restructuring that cuts layers of middle management and gives each remaining manager more people to lead, often with AI named as the reason.

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