AI, Layoffs, and the Future of Your Career — with Dr. Ben Zweig (Part 1 of 2)

So if you haven't seen the headlines yet, there's this company called Block. It's the company behind Square and Cash App and Afterpay. It just announced that it's laying off 4,000 employees. That's roughly 40% of its workforce. It's going to go from over 10,000 employees down to under 6,000. With this news comes the question, is this a harbinger of things to come? Will we all be unemployed? And that question itself is a subset of a much bigger question, which is, what is the future of work? To answer that, we brought in the guy who teaches a class called the future of work at NYU Stern School of Business. His name is doctor Ben Zweig, and he's the CEO of Revelio Labs, which is a workforce data company that uses AI to build big employment databases and track shifts in the labor market in real time. So his company analyzes millions of job postings and analyzes employee records to see what's actually changing in the world of hiring. Doctor Zweig holds a PhD in economics from the CUNY Graduate Center, and he is the author of Job Architecture, which is a book that traces how we structured work in the first place from the founders of Wall Street to early management consultants to modern data scientists who are trying to make sense of the labor market. So he in that book, he argues that many of the systems around how we work were built for a different era, and AI is really exposing that. And, of course, that's going to influence the future of work. So today's episode is part one of two. In today's episode, we are going to talk about which jobs are most vulnerable to automation. We're gonna talk about how, in particular, this affects younger workers, why hiring has really slowed for younger workers. And we're gonna discuss what skills matter in the era in which AI can execute many, many tasks faster than humans can. We'll talk about what parts of your job AI can already do and what that means for you, particularly if you're early in your career. That's all in today's episode. And then in the next episode, part two, we will go deeper into the taxonomy of work and how all of that is going to likely get restructured as we move into the next few years. Oh, I should introduce myself. Welcome to the Afford Anything podcast, the show that knows you can afford anything, not everything. This show covers five pillars, financial psychology, increasing your income, investing, real estate, and entrepreneurship. It's double I fire. I'm your host, Paula Pant. And today's episode, you know, we talk about the five pillars that the show covers. Today's episode is about that first letter I, increasing your income, because, well, any discussion around jobs, careers, around the future of work traces to that. How do we continue to earn more to thrive in our careers in a landscape …