# Research: Why Some Junior Employees Work Well with AI—and Others Don’t - Harvard Business Review

*Источник: Harvard Business Review*
*Дата: 2026-07-23*
*Язык: en*

**Кратко:** Organizations need to understand how individuals create value beyond the AI baseline in real organizational settings, particularly in higher-stakes professional work requiring judgment, domainEntry-level employees are on the front lines of a rapid shift in knowledge work. These jobs used to be full of tasks that created an onramp into an industry and helped junior employees start building expertise.

Summary.
Organizations need to understand how individuals create value beyond the AI baseline in real organizational settings, particularly in higher-stakes professional work requiring judgment, domainEntry-level employees are on the front lines of a rapid shift in knowledge work. These jobs used to be full of tasks that created an onramp into an industry and helped junior employees start building expertise. But now, many of these tasks are at risk of being delegated to AI-powered workflows, which are increasingly capable of handling analytical, information-intensive assignments. And as AI continues to improve, research has shown it is quickly resetting the baseline, with the standard for acceptable output rising as models improve.

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