AI First. Humans Maybe.
Capital is flowing to AI, not people—and that changes everything about workforce strategy.
It’s been a volatile few weeks—not just in the markets, but inside organizations, too. Amid the broader selloff, Shopify quietly drew a line in the sand—and it might be the most important workforce signal we’ve seen for quite a while.
Their new rule? No new hires unless AI can’t do the job.
That one sentence signals the arrival of something I’ll call the …