This Week in Jobs: How AI Is Changing Hiring, Pay, and Power At Work

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AI isn't coming for work someday. It's already sitting in the seat next to you, quietly handling tasks, writing drafts, and redefining what good performance looks like. We talk with Ricky Baez about what he's seeing from HR and business leaders right now: faster adoption, bigger expectations, and a widening gap between people building AI skills and people waiting for the wave to pass. Along the way, we get into new survey data showing workers using AI to absorb coworker tasks, why so many employees stay quiet about it, and how that silence tends to backfire when output rises, but headcount hasn't. We also debate the piece that makes hiring feel impersonal: Amazon moving to AI-run interviews with zero human involvement. Helpful shortcut for high-volume seasonal roles, or the start of a process that signals candidates don't matter? From there, it's practical recruiting realities, including using AI to cut ghosting, speed up screening, and move qualified people to a real recruiter faster, and why the hybrid approach tends to win. Then the harder questions: bias, disparate impact, and why employment law is lagging behind AI screening tools and automated hiring decisions.

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