When AI Rearranges Time: Designing a New Workforce for a New Cycle of Work

The real issue is not whether AI removes entry-level work, but how rearranged time changes the way future leaders are formed.

When AI Rearranges Time: Designing a New Workforce for a New Cycle of Work Tony Wong Apr 14, 2026 1 Share A few weeks ago, I shared reflections from my keynote at Jumpstarter 2026 in Hong Kong. My argument was that business leaders should be careful not to over-invest in an imagined future, and instead pay closer attention to the lived realities, questions, and choices AI is already shaping in the present. On the way back to my hotel, I passed a large Prudential campaign in a Hong Kong MRT station with the headline: 62.5% of parents are worried that AI is replacing most entry-level work. What

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