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The Forrester AI Job Impact Forecast, US, 2025–2030

AI And Automation Will Take 6% Of Jobs By 2030 But Will Mostly Augment Human Employees

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Dec 24, 2025

Summary

There’s a common impression — among leaders, in the media, and among employees — that AI is already causing widespread unemployment. But the evidence doesn’t support this contention today, and we believe that AI will have a real but only modest impact on jobs through 2030. Organizations that buy into the hype will be prone to over-automating jobs, requiring later pullbacks and harming employee experience. Leaders should instead master our five new rules for AI and jobs to build a human-centric AI strategy.

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