Gen Z risks losing a key career development tool to AI - The Business Journals

AI isn't just changing how work gets done. It's quietly replacing the small moments where real learning used to happen. A new report highlights how Gen Z workers are losing low-stakes human interacti

AI isn't just changing how work gets done. It's quietly replacing the small moments where real learning used to happen.

A new report highlights how Gen Z workers are losing low-stakes human interactions at work — the quick questions, the hallway coaching, the informal feedback loops. Because AI now handles those moments instead.

That's worth pausing on if you're a business owner trying to figure out where AI actually fits.

Here's the real insight: AI doesn't just automate tasks. It changes how people on your team learn, grow, and communicate. The business owners getting this right aren't just asking "what can AI do?" They're asking "what should AI never touch?"

That's a different question. And it's the one worth starting with.

You don't need to overhaul anything. Just look at one workflow this week where human judgment and relationship-building actually matter. That's probably not the right place to drop in a new tool. The right place is the repetitive, low-creativity task nobody on your team enjoys anyway.

Find that task first. One small win beats one expensive mistake every time.

What's one area in your business where you tried AI and the team just... never used it? Would love to hear what happened.

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Jonathan Thorpe, CEO at organizational development firm Quantum Connections LLC, said Gen Z isn't wrong to be worried. “The small, low-stakes human ...