Anthropic says its workforce has become younger and spends more time in meetings

The makeup of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work performed have changed significantly over the past year, according to a report released Friday by the AI ​​company.

Anthropic says its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will change work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially as the company “has carefully shaped its workflows around AI.” But even though other organizations have never adopted AI as thoroughly or in exactly the same way as Anthropic, the report offers a fascinating insight into how the company currently operates.

Anthropic is notably hiring fewer juniors, with the proportion of junior-level employees in technical departments having fallen from 21% to 14% since the start of 2025, and the proportion of junior technical hires decreasing even more sharply, from 27% to 9%.

Anthropic also says that technical teams now make up a smaller share of the overall workforce, falling from 61% to 56% – a trend it attributes to “the natural expansion of business functions as the company scales”, as well as “coding tools increasingly allowing 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 because of Claude and 20% said their work had shifted “from actually working to managing Claude”; apparently one engineer compared it to babysitting: “When you babysit, each child brings their concerns to you with an equal demand for attention and the different ones (Claudes) do that too. »

In fact, the report suggests that “human attention and judgment” become a “bottleneck” to productivity, as Claude produces a “deluge” of texts that need to be read and organized.

Unsurprisingly, the report claims that AI adoption has made the company more productive, as indicated by “more code per person, more sales per rep, and more contracts processed.” The company acknowledges that “more code does not necessarily mean better code or better business impact,” but it also hasn’t found any indications that code quality is declining.

The report states that, based on calendar data, meeting time per employee increased 20% from a year ago, and 16% for technical contributors. The company attributes this to the importance of “human trust and accountability,” with employees repeatedly describing “face-to-face coordination as indispensable.”