The missing rung of the ladder: How AI automation is quietly breaking the career pipeline

For over two decades, corporations compensated for inefficiency by adding layers of coordination instead of fixing the system. When something didn’t work, they didn’t redesign it — they hired someone to “manage” it. Soon, entire ecosystems of meta-work emerged — jobs that existed to describe, oversee, or justify other jobs. They multiplied inside large organisations […] The post The missing rung of the ladder: How AI automation is quietly breaking the career pipeline appeared first on e27.