Description

One person in your business builds twenty AI agents and is accountable for everything they produce. Proud, or terrified?

Amanda spent two decades in workforce advisory, built and sold Newance, a US recruitment and people operations consultancy, and now writes on Substack about what's shifting underneath the headlines in companies and the people who work in them. Her argument is that the job is no longer the smallest unit a business gets organised around. The workflow is. And because that reclassification happens inside the same job titles, the employment numbers don't show it.

We get into:

• Why "will AI replace jobs" is the wrong lens, and what's actually being reclassified underneath it
• Cog work versus marquee talent. Same title in the same company, and a completely different deal underneath
• The OpenAI finding that 43.5% of job-specific ChatGPT tasks fall outside the person's own role, and what that does to accountability
• Whether the CTO and the CHRO end up being the same person
• A client who still keeps paper files, and why adoption is running slower than the model releases suggest
• What acqui-hiring actually means, and why trust is the thing some companies are now trying to buy back
• Grief. Not a word I expected in a conversation about workforce data.

Amanda's takeaway for the week is one I've been chewing on since we recorded: check the weather, not the headlines.

Connect with Amanda:

Website: https://www.amandadaering.com

Substack: https://amandadaering.substack.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandadaering/

Time Stamps:

02:26 Amanda's background

04:15 Jobs vs workflows: the atomic unit

05:33 Cog work and marquee talent

07:35 Scope creep and the 43.5% study

09:41 Twenty agents: proud or terrified?

12:18 Should the CTO and CHRO be one job?

14:38 Paper files and fifth-generation CEOs

17:39 Start with the business model

20:58 Decks to desks: the coexistence era

24:40 Anxiety, grief and AI-native ensembles

26:25 What acqui-hiring actually means

30:21 The orchestration layer and $10m PMs

32:47 Checking the weather

35:22 The deal underneath the job title

37:05 How Amanda uses AI

40:14 Takeaways

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