AI is disrupting the workforce from the bottom up, and faster than you might think

Alex Cwirko-Godycki for Pave

AI is disrupting the workforce from the bottom up, and faster than you might think.

If you speak to recent college graduates, you’ll hear a common refrain: Getting a job is really tough, especially the type of job they imagined getting when they started university four years ago.

A key culprit: artificial intelligence (AI). This new technology is quickly disrupting the workforce, and young professionals are suffering the consequences, especially at technology companies.

According to new research from Pave , a compensation intelligence platform that collects real-time pay and workforce data from more than 8,300 companies, the number of 21- to 25-year-olds employed by technology and technology-adjacent firms (e.g., FinTech, HealthTech, etc.) is shrinking. A