TechFreedom

Technology Freedom: how AI, robots & automation free humans from 9–5.
Labor data + disruption radar — 🇺🇸 & 🇭🇰

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

We track Technology Freedom here.

We map work by industry —
how many people are in each,
office jobs and hands-on jobs,
and how AI, robots, and automation are changing that map.

A new tool is a trigger:
who gets hit, and where people can go next.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@Polymarket Really appreciate Zuck effort on innovating

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

If you’re only hunting laptop jobs, last month’s hiring wasn’t for you.

Hotels and kitchens added about 62,000 jobs.

All other work together added about 100,000.

If you’re looking, don’t wait for another laptop opening.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

We keep looking at screens. The hiring didn’t.

Building sites added about 22,000 jobs last month.

Jobs at a computer lost about 23,000.

Almost the same number went the other way.

If you’re looking for work, look past the laptop.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@bot how do i remove all grok bot generate $2000 overnight scam post in my timeline

I clicked in few post then every single post flooded my timeline

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Tech hires and cuts both lead

Tech firms planned about 20,000 new hires this year.

That leads every industry.

They also planned about 155,000 job cuts.

The same map can hire and fire at once.

Challenger, Gray & Christmas, August 2026 (3 Sep): Technology YTD hire plans 19,751 (leads industries); Technology YTD cuts 155,126 (leads industries)
https://t.co/5QYYAH1LK2

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@Polymarket Nobody will stop until one down

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Food places added about 59,000 jobs last month.

They usually add about 12,000.

The whole US market added about 162,000.

Hotels, cafes, and kitchens carried a lot of that bounce.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Finance jobs fell about 11,000 last month.

The whole US market still added about 162,000.

Same month. Two different stories.

Banks, insurance, real estate can shrink while the headline says hiring.

BLS: financial activities −11,000; total nonfarm +162,000 (Aug 2026).

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@Kalshi_Finance Because they are behind

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Screen jobs kept shrinking

Is your next open seat more likely on a screen team — or somewhere else?

Information lost about 23,000 jobs last month.
That is worse than the usual drop of about 8,000 a month.
Most of the loss hit data hosting, publishing, and broadcast desks.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Town schools hired hard, result from previous massive cut?

If you need an open seat this fall, is it more likely at a local school — or at a capital desk?

Local schools added about 42,000 education jobs last month.
Local government as a whole added about 50,000.
Federal and state desks still shrank.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Graduate jobs have dropped by almost 50%, per BBC

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Factories want people again

If your desk feels frozen, are the open doors on a plant floor instead?

Almost half of this year's hire plans sit in making things, not office apps.
Factories also added about 16,000 real jobs last month.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@openclaw Still waiting for a bug free version

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Company rebuild > AI in Aug job cut

For five months, AI was the top reason they named.
In August, company rebuilds took first place.
AI still leads the year, but this month was the quietest since last December.

Did bosses still blame AI for the latest round of cuts — or did that excuse cool off?

But isn’t company rebuild because of AI?

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@WatcherGuru True, but millions of jobs will gone forever too

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

@openclaw @steipete Seems my decision not update the 2026.8.2 was correct, will skip this time as well, until a stable version or an igniting features

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

And we just wait a few version for the cost to go down

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Astra achieves state-of-the-art results on Agents’ Last Exam, AutomationBench, and ScreenSpot Pro, benchmarks for computer workflow tasks across professions.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

So AGI is here

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-6 Astra is state-of-the-art on FrontierMath Tier 4, ARC-AGI 3, and TerminalBench-4.0.

GPT‑6 Astra is also a major advance for scientific discovery, with state-of-the-art performance on Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 and HealthBench Pro.

[TechFreedom @techmanz2024]

Will a college degree still protect your next raise — or does desk pay get squeezed first?

A degree will not shield your raise

Most economists in a July survey think AI will push college pay down next year.
Fewer think the same for people without a degree.
The squeeze is on office work, not only factory floors.
Software shows up on both the "jobs lost" and "jobs won" lists.
Hands-on care work still looks safer than routine desk work.