
Top AI Spenders Are Hiring More, Not Less, Ramp Study Finds
Companies investing heavily in AI grew headcount by roughly 10% and entry-level hiring by 12%, according to a new Ramp study that pushes back on fears of mass job cuts.

Nadia Hassan
North Africa Editor · Cairo
Fears that generative AI is already hollowing out the workforce may be overstated, at least among the firms spending the most to deploy it. A new study from the financial operations company Ramp found that the heaviest corporate adopters of AI are expanding their teams rather than shrinking them, as CoinDesk reported.
What the study found
According to Ramp's analysis, companies making the largest investments in AI increased their overall headcount by about 10%. More notably, those same firms grew entry-level hiring by roughly 12% — a figure that runs counter to a widely held worry that junior and routine roles would be the first casualties of automation.
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