The debate about what AI is doing to white-collar work has been loud, contentious, and — if you talk to Nela Richardson — almost entirely about the wrong thing.
Richardson is ADP’s chief economist, which means she sits atop one of the most complete real-time pictures of American work that exists — payroll data, job postings, and wage records, covering roughly one in six U.S. workers. She is also running what she calls “the great job unbundling,” a project launched this past January at Davos in partnership with the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and its resident AI thought leader, Erik Brynjolfsson.
