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Los Angeles Times
|July 04, 2026
While AI is often cited as one of the reasons for mass layoffs, particularly in the tech sector, for fast-growing companies it also seems to be creating new jobs in many companies, according to a study published Tuesday from financial services company Ramp and employRevelio ment Labs.
EMPLOYEES walk along a footbridge at OpenAI's office building in San Francisco earlier this year.
"Our early result is that it looks like firms are starting to look for more entry-level hires, likely people who are more AI native," said Ara Kharazian, the lead economist at Ramp, a financial services company that found a rise in early-career hiring by companies in the period they started spending heavily on AI.
The study tracked AI spending and the workforce records of nearly 22,000 U.S. companies between January 2021 and February 2026.
It found that firms that spent more on AI ended up increasing their workforce headcount by an average of 10% over the two years after rolling out the technology.
Companies that made the largest AI investment expanded entry-level job hiring by 12%.
"If you are a job seeker, or you are graduating from college, and you're choosing between two different firms that are otherwise similar, I would choose the one that's using AI," Kharazian said.
This story is from the July 04, 2026 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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