人工智能与入门级工作的未来：保障并重塑早期职业发展路径的框架

I N S I G H TR E P O R T Contents Foreword3 Executive summaryIntroduction: Context and framework1Job access2Job design3Talent pipelines4Education system alignmentCall to actionContributorsAcknowledgmentsEndnotes DisclaimerThis document is published by the World EconomicForum as a contribution toa project, insight area orinteraction. The findings,interpretations andconclusions expressed © 2026 World EconomicForum. All rights reserved.No part of this publicationmay be reproduced ortransmitted in any form or Foreword Saadia ZahidiManaging Director Peter BrownGlobal Workforce Leader Skills mismatches have been among the topconcerns of business executives in the tenyears since the World Economic Forum’s firstFuture of Jobs Report. Today, that risk is beingcompounded. Artificial intelligence (Al) is reshapinghow organizations hire, develop and advance We find that business leaders need to consider: –Targeted focus on access to entry-level roles asAl reshapes demand –Redesigning entry-level work to bring out thebest of people, Al agents and technologyReinventing talent pipelines and professional –Reinventing talent pipelines and professionaldevelopment as organizational structures evolve The impact of Al will not be determined by thetechnology alone. It will be determined by thechoices of business leaders, policy-makers,workers and society. The right choices can help to –Collaborating with education and trainingsystems to prepare entry-level workers to thrive To put into practice the findings andrecommendations explored in this report, the WorldEconomic Forum’s Centre for the New Economyand Society is launching the First-Mile Sandbox,piloting new and innovative models of workplacereadiness through educator and employer co-creation across industries and geographies. In this report, we seek to provide a clear lens onhow Al is reshaping entry-level work and focuson the areas organizations need to proactivelyaddress now. The report draws on a uniquecombination of global data and practice-basedinsight. It brings together perspectives from theWorld Economic Forum’s Global Dialogue onAl and Entry-Level Work, which convened over200 leaders and experts, and data from PwC’s Managing the transitions that are currently takingplace in workplaces is not a matter for humanresources departments alone. It is a board-levelstrategic concern for every organization that relieson a healthy talent pipeline and a workforce readyto make the most of Al’s potential. Strong entrylevelpathways in particular matter for economic mobility, Executive summary Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping work, andthis is most visible at the entry level. Globally,more than one in three (37%) young workers areemployed in occupations with medium to highexposure to AI-driven task change, including threein four young workers in Eastern Asia (75%) andtwo in three young workers in Northern America as Agriculture, Construction and Food Services arecomparatively less affected. How these roles andpathways evolve will have significant implications fororganizational performance, workforce participationand economic mobility. This report introduces aframework across four dimensions – job access,job design, talent pipelines and education system Introduction:Context and framework1 Entry-level roles have long provided ordered pathwaysinto paid work and onto the first step of traditionalcareer ladders. Across economies, these rolesplay a critical part in workforce participation andskill formation, offering structured opportunities to base of organizational hierarchies. Throughout thisreport, the term “early-career” is sometimes usedmore broadly to describe workers in the earlier stagesof their careers, reflecting the way labour-marketdatasets are often grouped by age or tenure ratherthan organizational role. In many industries, entry-level Globally, it is estimated that over 500 million youngpeople age 15–24 participate in the labour forcetoday1and over 600 million additional jobs will need tobe created, predominantly in emerging economies, tokeep up with demand from young people entering the Analysis for this report estimates that, globally, morethan one-third of young workers (37%) are employedin occupations with medium to high exposure toAI-driven task change, including three in four young Entry-level roles are typically defined by limitedexperience requirements and their position at the Distribution of young workers (age 15–24) across high-, medium- and low-AI exposureoccupations, by region This is evident in the aforementioned regions, wherelarger shares of workers, including at entry level,are employed in these sectors3. By contrast, youngworkers in regions with high employment shares in These regional differences are partly driven byvariations in employment composition. At the sectorlevel, AI exposure is concentrated in knowledgeintensive industries, where entry level roles often Entry-level workers Senior leaders Q: In the next