{"id":214878,"date":"2026-05-17T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:40:13","slug":"the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608\">The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 05:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The job market for young workers aged 22-to-27 deteriorated noticeably in the first quarter of the year, according to a New York Fed report.<\/li>\n<li>AI is partially blamed for this decline, as more companies are using AI to automate tasks that young graduates might otherwise perform.<\/li>\n<li>The job market for these young workers experienced its worst condition since the pandemic by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<li>A global CEO survey by Oliver Wyman found that 43% of CEOs plan to reduce junior roles over the next two years, a significant increase from 17% in the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>The trend is driven by AI deployment; those CEOs with longer planning horizons are more inclined to reduce headcount, possibly envisioning a leaner, AI-augmented organization.<\/li>\n<li>Despite AI being a top priority for most CEOs, with over 90% deploying it, many haven\u2019t seen substantial returns on their AI investments.<\/li>\n<li>The report highlights that even CEOs seeing returns on AI investments are still shifting hiring preference towards mid-level roles rather than juniors.<\/li>\n<li>AI-driven headcount reduction can expose organizations and jeopardize future workforce development, particularly for young talents who lose on-the-job training and growth opportunities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Young Are Being Battered by AI as Hiring Shifts to Older Workers https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-young-are-being-battered-by-ai-as-hiring-shifts-to-older-workers-2000759608 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/05\/shutterstock_2342240463-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214880,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214878\/revisions\/214880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}