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A white-collar world without juniors?
Professional business models may need to change if novices lose the opportunities to learn and progress when AI takes over their work.
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In the gloomiest scenario, companies might stop hiring juniors in a rush for productivity gains.
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Sarah O’Connor
One of my first jobs as a trainee reporter was to write a daily stock market report. It was the sort of task that wouldn’t trouble an experienced journalist, but for a novice like me, it was scary and hard.
I was lucky, though: After I filed my draft, my editor would have me stand behind his shoulder and watch his screen while he edited it. He would explain out loud what he was changing and why, which helped me learn how to do it a bit better the next day.
