The End of the Office
March 5, 2026
This automation wave will kick millions of white-collar workers to the curb in the next 12 – 18 months. As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will become a competition because the stock market will reward you if you cut headcount and punish you if you don’t. As one investor put it, “Sell anything that consists of people sitting at a desk looking at a computer.”
I’ve started to call this displacement wave the Fuckening because that feels more visceral.
Do you sit at a desk and look at a computer much of the day? Take this very seriously.
Certainly not endorsing everything in this article. It was written before Block’s recent reduction of its headcount by 40%, which looks a lot like something this predicted.
Recently, I was listening to a very important person talk about a governmental strategy in the face of AI, and they talked about getting people ready for AI jobs. I’m not sure the word “jobs” will make a lot of sense, certainly not in terms of the meaning we currently give to it as the implication of these technologies lands.
