The Rundown Tech: McKinsey: This is how AI is changing work

Posted on November 25, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
McKinsey: This is how AI is changing work
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The Rundown: McKinsey dropped its AI jobs verdict: algorithms could swallow 57% of U.S. work hours. But before you panic-update your résumé, they say the future isn’t about machines replacing you, it’s about you becoming their conductor.
The details:
McKinsey pegs AI’s potential economic value at $2.9T in the U.S. by 2030 — but only if organizations redesign workflows for human-machine collaboration.More than 70% of the skills employers look for today are shared across both automatable and non-automatable roles, so there’s a large overlap. However, certain specialized cognitive skills — routine accounting, data entry, simple coding — face the biggest hit. Demand for “AI fluency” has grown sevenfold in two years, making it the fastest-growing skill in U.S. job postings.
Why it matters: The shift from execution to orchestration means your job probably survives, but only if you can pivot fast enough to manage the machines instead of mimicking them. Jobs demanding judgment, empathy, and social intelligence stay human, at least until the next breakthrough proves otherwise.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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