Will White-Collar Workers Really Disappear? Critical Analysis of a Prophecy on AI and Work
By Pascale Caron The announcement is spectacular. In one sentence, it condenses contemporary anxiety about artificial intelligence: office jobs are doomed to disappear within eighteen months. The statement, attributed to Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, immediately circulated through media and digital ecosystems, fueling a familiar narrative: that of rapid and massive substitution of human...
Is AI Breaking Down the Consulting Pyramid?
For decades, major consulting firms have operated according to an almost immutable mechanism. A few partners would sell high-value strategic projects. Behind them, an army of juniors produced analyses, benchmarks, PowerPoint slides, and Excel models under extremely tight deadlines. This pyramidal model constituted the economic engine of firms like McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group,...
AI in Business: Behind the Performance, the Psychological Debt
The adoption of artificial intelligence in business is now presented as a strategic necessity. Automation, productivity gains, accelerated innovation: the promises are numerous, well-documented, and widely relayed in contemporary management literature. However, a closer analysis of organizational dynamics reveals a less visible but structural tension. In a recent article published by Harvard Business Review in...