jobpocalypse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Humorous; Informal

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"When the nation first went through high rates of unemployment recently, it wasn’t just a job crisis; it was a jobpocalypse or a hiring-pocalypse."
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"The other issue is that as a nation and a society, we are woefully unprepared for the coming jobpocalypse. The regular working people on the right have been so heinously misled that they are worried about immigrants taking the jobs they don’t want instead of focusing on robots taking the jobs they already have."
"The growing role of technology to do jobs that have been the domain of the laboring class, such as moving goods through a warehouse, launched a thousand prognostications in recent years from study groups and universities about a coming "jobpocalypse" for blue-collar workers. And jobs have been and continue to be lost, though others, such as building and maintaining robots, have been created."
"But if a generative AI-driven "jobpocalypse" for computer science graduates doesn't seem to explain the graduate male malaise, what does?"

From job + -pocalypse. The "caused by artificial intelligence" sense may have popularized by the Financial Times newspaper in late 2025.