Anthropic 称初级员工占比下降，员工开会时间增加

据 AI 公司 Anthropic 周五发布的一份报告，过去一年，该公司的员工构成和工作内容发生了显著变化。

Anthropic 认为，自身的职场趋势可能预示着“AI 将如何改变整个经济体中的工作组织、招聘和劳动力需求”，尤其是因为该公司“已围绕 AI 彻底重塑了工作流程”。不过，即便其他组织永远不会像 Anthropic 那样彻底或以完全相同的方式采用 AI，这份报告仍为人们了解该公司当前的运作方式提供了一个耐人寻味的窗口。

值得注意的是，Anthropic 招聘的初级人才正在减少。自 2025 年初以来，技术部门中初级员工的占比从 21% 降至 14%；技术岗位新聘人员中初级人才的占比降幅更大，从 27% 降至 9%。

Anthropic 还表示，技术团队在员工总数中的占比也有所下降，从 61% 降至 56%。该公司将这一趋势归因于“公司扩大规模时业务职能的自然扩张”，以及“编程工具越来越多地让非技术员工能够自行开发软件”。

据报道，一名员工形容 Anthropic 存在一种“永无止境的压力，要求尽可能快速行动，并在所有事情上使用 Claude”。在 2026 年 4 月的一项调查中，27% 的员工表示，Claude 提高了他们的生产力；20% 的员工表示，自己的工作已“从亲自做事转变为管理多个 Claude”。据称，一名工程师将这种体验比作照看孩子：“照看孩子时，每个孩子都会带着自己的问题来找你，而且都同样需要你关注；不同的 [Claude] 也是这样。”

事实上，报告指出，随着 Claude 生成需要阅读和整理的“海量”文本，“人的注意力和判断力”正在成为生产力的“瓶颈”。

不出所料，报告认为，采用 AI 提高了公司的生产力，表现为“人均编写更多代码、每名销售人员达成更多交易，以及处理更多合同”。公司承认，“更多代码并不一定意味着更好的代码或业务成效”，但也表示尚未发现代码质量下降的迹象。

报告称，日历数据显示，与一年前相比，员工人均会议时间增加了 20%，技术岗位员工的会议时间增加了 16%。公司将此归因于“人际信任与责任担当”的重要性，员工多次将“面对面协调”形容为不可或缺。

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year, according to a report that the AI company published on Friday.

Anthropic argues that its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially since the company “has thoroughly molded its workflows around AI.” But even if other organizations never embrace AI as thoroughly or in the exact same way as Anthropic, the report offers an intriguing glimpse at how the company currently operates.

Notably, Anthropic is making fewer junior hires, with the proportion of junior-level employees in technical departments falling from 21% to 14% since early 2025, and the proportion of junior technical hires falling even more sharply, from 27% to 9%.

Anthropic also says that technical teams now represent a smaller share of the overall workforce, falling from 61% to 56% — a trend that it attributes to “natural expansion of business functions as the company scales,” as well as “coding tools increasingly allowing non-technical employees to make software themselves.”

One employee reportedly described an “eternal pressure at Anthropic to move as fast 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 job had shifted “from actually doing work to managing Claudes”; apparently one engineered compared this to babysitting: “When you are babysitting, every child brings to you concerns with an equal demand for your attention and the various [Claudes] also do that.”

In fact, the report suggests “human attention and judgement” are becoming a “bottleneck” for 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 company 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 also hasn’t found any indications that code quality is declining.

The report says that based on calendar data, meeting time per employee is up 20% compared to a year ago, and it’s up 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.”