The end of the ‘good enough’ worker

I watch about a thousand companies make hiring decisions in real time as the CEO of Paraform, the world’s largest recruiting marketplace. The pattern I’ve seen over the last 18 months is so consistent that it’s no longer just a trend. The standard story about AI and jobs is that automation is hollowing out entry-level work, but that’s not entirely true. What I’m seeing is more consequential: Artificial intelligence is making “good enough” workers redundant, while the remaining dem...