Pondering the youth unemployment crisis that is all over the news.
My employer has:
1) Cut the grad scheme
2) Eliminated junior roles
Meanwhile they ARE spending oodles of money on adopting LLMs including to “replace” customer service and software testing functions.
That’s just one employer, but I suspect it is repeated in many other workplaces.
Anyone else seeing this?
Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith
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2026-05-29 07:37:59 UTC
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