{"slug": "ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says", "title": "AI will not trigger employment collapse, staffing company Adecco Group says", "summary": "AI will not trigger a collapse in employment, staffing company Adecco Group said in a study released Thursday, citing record employment rates and near-historic low unemployment among OECD countries three and a half years after ChatGPT's release. CEO Denis Machuel told Reuters that some companies are using AI as a cover for cuts caused by weaker performance, and that AI is more about changing roles than eliminating jobs.", "body_md": "By John Revill\n\nZURICH, July 23 (Reuters) - AI will not trigger a collapse in employment despite concerns the technology will displace large numbers of workers, a study by staffing company Adecco Group showed on Thursday .\n\nEmployers have cited AI as responsible for nearly a quarter of job cuts in the United States this year, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said.\n\nMicrosoft said this month it was cutting about 2.1% of its workforce, joining HSBC Holdings, Amazon and Standard Chartered in a wave of layoffs as they shift investment toward AI.\n\nBut Denis Machuel, CEO of Zurich-based Adecco, the world's largest staffing company, told Reuters some companies were using AI as a cover for cuts caused by weaker performance, restructuring or other problems.\n\n\"AI is bringing a massive evolution in the world of work, but a job apocalypse is not on the horizon,\" he said. \"It's more about changing roles and tasks than eliminating jobs.\"\n\nThree and a half years after the release of OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT, employment rates are at record highs and unemployment near historic lows, Adecco said, citing data from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development about its 38 member countries.\n\nPrevious industrial revolutions from the advent of steam, electricity, information technology and the internet have transformed work without causing mass job destruction, Machuel said.\n\n\"With the data we have so far, there's no evidence we will have a different scenario with AI,\" he added.\n\nSome entry-level jobs were disappearing but employers could not simply cut junior positions without damaging talent pipelines, Machuel said.\n\nCompanies needed to reinvent such jobs so AI can complement them, Machuel said, noting upskilling, reskilling, and closer collaboration among companies, governments and education systems was essential.\n\n(Reporting by John RevillEditing by Rod Nickel)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-not-trigger-employment-collapse-045252286.html", "published_at": "2026-07-23 04:52:52+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 05:22:43.459702+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Adecco Group", "Denis Machuel", "OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development", "Microsoft", "HSBC Holdings", "Amazon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-will-not-trigger-employment-collapse-staffing-company-adecco-group-says.jsonld"}}