2027
The end of office work
AI agents start doing computer work from start to finish: emails, spreadsheets, reports, customer service, accounting, analysis. Hiring a person for a task done only in front of a screen stops making economic sense. It is the first major category of work to end.
Forecast: lastday.at, based on Suleyman (Microsoft) and Amodei (Anthropic). Source: Business Insider (via Yahoo Finance), Fortune (Amodei, 2025)