Anthropic released a report on how its own workforce has changed and presents itself as a possible preview of what AI will do to labor markets. The company has rebuilt its workflows around AI, so the numbers are interesting, but they come from Anthropic itself and are not independent research.
Fewer beginners
The share of junior employees in technical departments fell from 21% to 14% since early 2025. Among new technical hires the drop is sharper, from 27% to 9%. Technical teams went from 61% to 56% of the workforce. Anthropic says this reflects business functions growing as the company scales, and non-technical staff now building software themselves with coding tools.
Working with Claude
In an April 2026 survey, 27% of employees said Claude made them more productive, and 20% said their job had shifted from doing the work to managing several Claudes. One engineer compared it to babysitting children who all want attention at once. Human attention is becoming the bottleneck, since the model produces a lot of text that people must read and sort.
Meetings are growing
Calendar data shows meeting time per employee up 20% year over year, and 16% for technical staff. The company links this to trust and accountability still resting on face-to-face coordination.
Caveats
Sample size and survey method are not given, there are no absolute headcounts, and some findings rest on individual anecdotes. More code per person does not automatically mean more value, which Anthropic admits, though it says it found no sign that code quality is falling.