The makeup of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work performed has changed significantly over the past year, according to a report the artificial intelligence company released Friday. Anthropic maintains that its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will change the organization of work, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially since the company “has completely shaped its workflows around AI.” But even if other organizations never embrace AI as thoroughly or in exactly the same way as Anthropic, the report offers an intriguing glimpse into how the company currently operates. In particular, Anthropic is making fewer junior hires: the share of junior-level employees in technical departments has fallen from 21% to 14% since the beginning of 2025, and the share of junior technical hires has fallen even more sharply, from 27% to 9%. Anthropic also says that technical teams now make up a smaller proportion of the overall workforce, falling from 61% to 56%, a trend it attributes to the “natural expansion of business functions as the company grows,” as well as “coding tools that increasingly allow non-technical employees to create software themselves.” One employee reportedly described an “eternal pressure at Anthropic to move as quickly as possible and use Claude for everything.” In an April 2026 survey, 27% of employees said they had become more productive thanks to Claude and 20% said their job had moved “from actually working to managing Claudes”; Apparently, one of the engineers compared this to babysitting: “When you are babysitting, each child brings you worries with the same demand for your attention and diverse needs. [Claudes] do that too.” In fact, the report suggests that “human attention and judgment” is becoming a “bottleneck” to productivity, as Claude produces a “deluge” of text that needs to be read and organized. Unsurprisingly, the report argues that AI adoption has made the enterprise more productive, as indicated by “more code per person, closing more sales per rep, and processing more contracts.” The company acknowledges that “more code does not necessarily mean better code or business impact,” but it has also found no indication that code quality is declining. The report says that, based on calendar data, meeting time per employee increased by 20% compared to a year ago, and increased by 16% for technical contributors. The company attributes this to the importance of “human trust and accountability,” and employees repeatedly describe “face-to-face coordination as indispensable.”
