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WSJ Your Money Briefing

What ‘Everyone’s Replaceable’ Means in Today’s Job Market

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Amid economic uncertainty, some companies expect more work and less complaining from employees. Wall Street Journal reporter Chip Cutter joins host Derricke Dennis to discuss this shift in the workplace and how employees can survive an ‘everybody’s replaceable’ culture. Sign up for the WSJ's free Markets A.M. newsletter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8

Here's your money briefing for Thursday, May 15th. I'm Derek Dennis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:43.2

Some company leaders are telling workers to stop complaining, step it up, and embrace AI or lose their jobs.

0:52.6

And that tough talk has left employees wondering how they can navigate such a hard turn

0:57.8

in the workplace.

0:59.3

You can try to buddy up with a boss and you can try to make yourself just as sort of like

1:03.0

valuable as possible.

1:04.9

Workers have really been rattled by this wave after wave of layoffs inside companies.

1:09.1

And so I think everybody's just trying to figure out how do you hold on?

1:11.9

How do you keep your skills relevant?

1:13.5

How do you survive?

1:14.8

We talk with Wall Street Journal reporter Chip Cutter about what led to this shift in tone,

1:19.9

when things could change and how some workers are responding.

1:24.1

That's after the break.

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1:55.9

More company leaders have gotten tough on workers, flat out telling them everybody's replaceable. Wall Street

2:02.5

Journal reporter Chip Cutter joins me with more on what he writes is a war on talent. Chip,

2:08.2

when did things change? It's such a shift from what we've seen in the past. I mean, it used to be

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