AI-adopting firms are adding more jobs: PwC global chairman - CNBC

You were told AI would replace your team. So you hesitated. Meanwhile, the data says something completely different. PwC's Global Chairman just shared this at Vivatech: companies actually adopting AI

You were told AI would replace your team. So you hesitated. Meanwhile, the data says something completely different.

PwC's Global Chairman just shared this at Vivatech: companies actually adopting AI are adding more jobs, not cutting them. Not because AI does less than promised — because it frees people to do more valuable work.

You bought that tool nobody uses. That $200/month sitting idle isn't an AI problem. It's an implementation problem. The technology wasn't wrong. Nobody showed your team how it fit their actual daily work.

Here's what the smartest business owners are figuring out: AI adoption isn't about replacing what works. It's about finding the one task that eats 3 hours a week and making it take 20 minutes. That's your first win.

The companies pulling ahead aren't doing massive tech overhauls. They're picking one repetitive problem, solving it cleanly, and building confidence from there.

Start here: identify the single most repetitive task your team complains about. Not your biggest problem. Your most annoying small one. That's your 30-day pilot.

One task. One tool. One measurable result. That's how momentum starts.

What's the one workflow in your business that makes your team groan every time it comes up?

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Mohamed Kande, Global Chairman at PwC, discusses the job market and AI from the Vivatech conference in Paris.