Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

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.

根据这家人工智能公司周五发布的一份报告，过去一年中，Anthropic 的员工构成以及所从事的工作类型发生了显著变化。

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.”

Anthropic 认为，其自身的职场趋势可能预示着“人工智能将如何改变整个经济体的工作组织、招聘和劳动力需求”，尤其是考虑到该公司“已将其工作流程完全围绕人工智能进行了重塑”。

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.

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拥抱人工智能，这份报告依然提供了一个有趣的视角，让我们得以一窥该公司目前的运营方式。

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%.

值得注意的是，Anthropic 正在减少初级员工的招聘。自 2025 年初以来，技术部门中初级员工的比例从 21% 下降至 14%，而初级技术人员的招聘比例降幅更为剧烈，从 27% 降至 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.”

Anthropic 还表示，技术团队在整体员工中所占的比例有所下降，从 61% 降至 56%。该公司将这一趋势归因于“随着公司规模扩大，业务职能的自然扩张”，以及“编程工具日益让非技术员工也能自行开发软件”。

One employee reportedly described an “eternal pressure at Anthropic to move as fast as possible and use Claude for everything.”

据报道，一名员工形容在 Anthropic 存在一种“永恒的压力，要求尽可能快地行动，并把 Claude 用于一切事务”。

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 engineer 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.”

在 2026 年 4 月的一项调查中，27% 的员工表示由于 Claude 的使用，他们的工作效率有所提高；20% 的员工表示他们的工作已经从“实际执行工作转变为管理 Claude”。显然，一位工程师将其比作照看孩子：“当你照看孩子时，每个孩子都会带着需要你关注的问题找你，而各种 [Claude] 也是如此。”

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.

事实上，报告指出，“人类的注意力和判断力”正成为生产力的“瓶颈”，因为 Claude 会产生“海量”的文本，需要人工进行阅读和整理。

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.”

不出所料，报告认为人工智能的应用提高了公司的生产力，表现为“人均代码量增加、销售代表成交量提升以及处理的合同数量增多”。

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.

该公司承认“更多的代码并不一定意味着更好的代码质量或商业影响”，但同时也表示尚未发现代码质量下降的迹象。

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.

报告称，根据日历数据，每位员工的会议时间比一年前增加了 20%，技术贡献者的会议时间增加了 16%。

The company attributes this to the importance of “human trust and accountability,” with employees repeatedly describing “face-to-face coordination as indispensable.”

该公司将此归因于“人类信任和问责制”的重要性，员工们反复强调“面对面的协调是不可或缺的”。