This Upwork report explores how AI skills are reshaping existing roles, finding a trend towards job recomposition rather than mass replacement.
The data shows that even as AI agents take on more work, human skills remain essential, with its Human+AI Productivity Index showing that while advanced agents complete simple tasks at limited rates, performance improves significantly when people are involved – and improves further when human input is layered in multiple times and in ways that allow judgment, creativity and analytical thinking to enhance agent outcomes. The findings of the report challenge the narrative that AI is a force that unilaterally reshapes work and reveals that its impact is inseparable from the people who use it, the organisations that deploy it and the policies that govern it.
