From 2028, AI will change 150,000 jobs every day

München, Berlin. Artificial intelligence (AI) will profoundly change the world of work - but in a different way than many experts had previously expected, according to a new study. According to the study by analysis firm Gartner, around 150,000 jobs worldwide will change so much every day from 2028 onwards that they will have to be redefined or rewritten. At the same time, 70,000 new jobs will be created around the world every day - through automation, training and new technologies.

"AI will not trigger a job apocalypse, but job chaos," says Gartner analyst Helen Poitevin. In total, more than 32 million roles worldwide will be fundamentally changed every year after 2028.

Companies must therefore prepare for a phase in which they have to continuously change work profiles, responsibilities and careers. In Handelsblatt, experts categorise how companies can adapt to this change - and which three factors are crucial for managers to be able to shape the AI transformation.

The Gartner team simulated more than 10,000 scenarios for the study. Analysts analysed how the use of AI, economic conditions and new business models would affect employment. According to the study, there will not be mass unemployment. The analysts at Gartner even expect AI to create more jobs than it destroys.

But Poitevin says: "Job and role redesign is twenty times more expensive than layoffs or new hires."

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According to the study, financial service providers and the public sector are likely to be particularly affected - fields in which the shortage of skilled labour coincides with particularly far-reaching technological changes.

The analysts at Gartner call this the "ripple effect" - a chain reaction that extends beyond company boundaries. If one activity is automated, new tasks are created elsewhere.