Denis Machuel runs the world’s largest staffing company, which makes his read on the labour market worth pausing over. This week the Adecco Group chief executive offered it plainly: artificial intelligence is remaking work, but it is not about to empty the offices.
“AI is bringing a massive evolution in the world of work, but a job apocalypse is not on the horizon,” Machuel told Reuters.
The reassurance lands in a year that has felt anything but calm, with tech layoffs mounting and a lengthening list of employers naming AI as the culprit. His case rests less on optimism than on a shortage of evidence that anything catastrophic is happening.
Nearly three and a half years after ChatGPT arrived, employment rates across the OECD’s 38 member countries sit near record highs and joblessness remains close to historic lows, according to the group’s own figures.
Even as AI reshapes desk work, the aggregate numbers have refused to buckle.
