IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption

The job market has been a sore subject for Gen Z. The unemployment rate among young college grads sits at 5.6%, hovering near its highest level in more than a decade outside the pandemic. Meanwhile, prominent executives—from Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to Ford’s Jim Farley—have warned that artificial intelligence will slash corporate entry-level jobs. 

But some companies are realizing that cutting young workers out of the pipeline isn’t a sustainable long-term strategy: $240 billion tech giant IBM just revealed it’s ramping up hiring of Gen Z.

“The companies three to five years from now that are going to be the most successful are those companies that doubled down on entry-level hiring in this environment,” Nickle LaMoreaux, IBM’s chief human resources officer, Read Entire Article