🚀 MyMetricHub Newsletter – January 20, 2025

"Layoffs." It’s the word on every worker’s lips lately.

Social media, news articles, and LinkedIn feeds are flooded with another round of corporate cutbacks. Is it 2025? Or 2020? Or 2008? Or 2001? I sense a trend.

But this time, AI is playing a bigger role. Not as the villain stealing jobs outright—but as the tool reshaping them.

🔍 What AI Is Actually Replacing

AI isn’t coming for jobs, it’s coming for tasks. Jobs, after all, are just a bundle of responsibilities. And if a big enough chunk of your role is predictable, repetitive, or data-driven, AI is happy to take that off your plate.

🚀 What’s already shifting?

• Customer Support → Chatbots handle FAQs, humans handle escalations.
• Finance & Data → AI automates reporting, analysts interpret the big picture.
• Content Creation → AI drafts, but humans refine for strategy & nuance.

If your job isn’t evolving alongside AI, then yes—you’re at risk.

📊 The Jobs That Are (Mostly) Safe

🔹 Strategy & Decision-Making: AI crunches numbers, but it doesn’t run the business.

🔹 Creative & Brand Work: AI can generate, but humans understand culture and nuance.

🔹 Relationship-Driven Roles: AI doesn’t negotiate deals or manage clients.

🔹 Skilled Trades & Experiential Work: A massage therapist, nature guide, or performer? AI’s got nothing on you.

And yet—are we all just going to work for Amazon? Or will we become micro-celebrities, trading audience engagement like currency among influencers?

⚠️ Is AI Coming for You? (5-Point Rubric)

Take a hard look at your role: