Entry-level hiring has fallen sharply across white-collar work. An emerging explanation has been that generative AI is to blame. Drawing on their new study of hundreds of millions of hires and job adverts, Peter John Lambert and Yannick Schindler argue that where we work rather than the tools we use may be equally important in explaining this trend.

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17 August 2026

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2026/08/17/chatgpt-or-zoom-which-broke-the-career-ladder/

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