Labor

Workers are using ChatGPT to do tasks typically associated with specialists, according to new OpenAI research. It adds to growing evidence that AI is changing the division of labor within companies. If the trend persists, it could reshape hiring and job design—long before those changes show up in official labor market statistics. "The boundaries between jobs are likely already becoming more flexible due to AI," said OpenAI chief economist Ronnie Chatterji.

AI use has spread across a broad range of occupations, but it has yet to become the job-automating force many workers fear, according to a new Google study

Using nationally representative Quality of Life Survey microdata for 2020–2022, this paper examines who worked from home in Colombia and how WFH is associated with wages, job satisfaction, and weekly hours. A Digital Divide Index for Colombia's employed population has been developed. The results show that WFH is strongly associated with educational attainment, gender, age, firm size, and economic sector. Controlling for regions and economic sectors reveals a positive association between WFH, wages, and job satisfaction, whereas the relationship with weekly hours worked is negative.

Public debate over artificial intelligence ranges between visions of mass labor displacement to the technology being overhyped—from substance to spectacle. Using Wave 119 of the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel, I document a large spread between how workers assess AI’s impact on others and on themselves: nearly three-in-four workers are concerned about workers generally but only one-in-three translate that worry into personal concern, less than half.

The Wireless Futures Program is a national initiative designed to connect employers across the wireless and digital infrastructure ecosystem with undergraduate and graduate students seeking paid internship and cooperative learning opportunities.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr highlighted some key wins under his “Build America Agenda” since it was first launched last July in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As outlined last July, the agency’s Build America Agenda is centered on actions that unleash fast and affordable services for American families and businesses.

New Census Bureau data shows that 57 percent of Americans have used AI tools to search, brainstorm, complete work or school tasks, and more. Forty-two percent of respondents reported a productivity boost, though the responses also show concern with trust, data privacy, and career impact. Over half of US adults reported that someone in their household had used AI at least once in the past two months. The most common use was searching for information (35.1 percent of respondents). Smaller shares used it to brainstorm or generate ideas or as an assistant for work or school projects.

There is a positive relationship between artificial intelligence exposure and labor productivity growth in U.S. industry. But is AI itself responsible for that growth in the sectors most exposed to it? Because AI use varies across countries, we can draw on international data to investigate the relationship between AI exposure and productivity growth at the sector level. The positive relationship in the U.S. fits a pattern visible among countries and appears related to high AI use. U.S. labor productivity has grown at an annualized rate of 2.4 percent since the beginning of 2024.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association announced it has been selected as one of five organizations nationwide to receive funding through a $29.9 million US. Department of Labor cooperative agreement designed to help employers establish and maintain registered apprenticeship programs. The award will enable WIA to provide participating employers with pay-for-performance incentives that support the development, expansion, and long-term success of apprenticeship programs across the telecommunications industry.

This publication that sets out a new financial logic for sustaining digital adoption programs in the United States, arguing that digital adoption programs are essential services that create measurable economic value that benefits a range of sectors.