Young and unemployed? Remote work, not AI, may be the problem, study finds

Everyone blames AI for making business harder. But the real problem is usually much simpler — and closer to home. A new study found remote work, not AI, is what's actually disrupting how businesses h

Everyone blames AI for making business harder. But the real problem is usually much simpler — and closer to home.

A new study found remote work, not AI, is what's actually disrupting how businesses hire and onboard people. That caught my attention. Because the real takeaway isn't about hiring. It's about this: we keep blaming the shiny thing when the fundamentals are still unsolved.

You bought the AI tool. Nobody used it. $200/month gone. That's not a you problem — that's a sequencing problem. The tool arrived before the process was ready for it.

AI doesn't fix broken workflows. It amplifies whatever you already have. If your team doesn't have a clear, consistent process for a task, layering AI on top just creates expensive confusion. That's why most implementations fail — not because the technology is bad, but because it was dropped in without a foundation.

Here's the one thing you can act on today: pick one repetitive task your team does manually three or more times per week. Just one. That's your first AI candidate. Not your whole operation — one task.

That's where real ROI lives. Small, specific, measurable.

What's the one task in your business that eats the most time for the least value?

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WASHINGTON — The rise of remote work since the pandemic has made businesses more reluctant to hire young, inexperienced workers and is the key ...