Welcome back from leave. Your job is completely different.
Source: Business Insider ·
With longer leaves and faster changes at work, employees are returning as strangers in a strange land.
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Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BIAshley Wallace returned to her job after six months of maternity leave and met a new coworker: Claude.Before her leave, Wallace used ChatGPT to answer questions and some basic automations for notetaking or recruiting in her role as head of talent at the AI language-learning app Praktika. "I came back thinking, oh, I'll ease myself in," she says. "It definitely isn't the case in the landscape that I came back to." During her absence, the company had ushered in Claude Cowork — and Wallace didn't even know where to find the new system everyone was talking about on her computer.Add to her new reality that AI has rocked the job hunt process. Instead of the typical few hundred people applying for open roles at the startup, Wallace returned to find more than 1,000 vying for some jobs. Candidates sometimes come to interviews unable to answer a single question after she suspects they padded their applications with AI, forcing Wallace to come up with new ways to…