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#white-collar · The Replacement Report

Tracking every role, every department, every industry where AI just made someone redundant. Updated daily, because it happens daily.

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Verizon's CEO Asked Employees to Use AI to Write Their Own Obituaries. Three Days Later, Bloomberg Said the AI Job Apocalypse Is Postponed.

Dan Schulman told staff to use AI to draft their own obituaries and predicted 20–30% unemployment within five years. On April 24, Bloomberg's editorial board politely told him to relax.

Apr 26, 2026 —

#verizon#dan-schulman#telecom

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KPMG Asked Its US Audit Partners to Retire Voluntarily. Not Enough of Them Said Yes. So 100 Just Got Pushed.

KPMG is cutting roughly 10% of its US audit partners — about 100 of 1,400 — after a voluntary retirement push fell short. Big Four partner-for-life ended on a Thursday in April.

Apr 25, 2026 —

#kpmg#big-four#audit-partners

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AI Isn't Firing Junior Workers — It's Just Not Hiring Them. A Harvard Paper Tracking 62 Million Workers Has the Receipt.

A Harvard working paper covering 62 million U.S. workers across 285,000 firms finds that at companies adopting generative AI, junior hiring drops 7.7% within six quarters — driven not by layoffs but by a silent freeze on new positions. Axios reran the numbers on April 21.

Apr 22, 2026 —

#gen-z#junior-hiring#harvard-study