Who Is Eric Yuan? Zoom CEO Who Says Three-Day Workweeks Are Coming, Reveals Why

Amid growing worries about AI’s impact on employment, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan weighed in, suggesting that technological advances could lead to shorter workweeks for most employees. He specifically noted that in the AI-driven future, staff may only need to work a few days each week.“I feel like if AI can make all of our lives better, why do we need to work for five days a week? Every company will support three days, four days a week. I think this ultimately frees up everyone’s time,” Yuan was quoted as saying in a recent interview with The New York Times.Yuan also recognised that AI will inevitably replace certain jobs. “Whenever there’s a technology paradigm shift, some job opportunities are gone, but it will create some new opportunities. For some jobs,

like entry-level engineers, we can use A.I. to write code. However, you still need to manage that code. You also create a lot of digital agents, and you need someone to manage those agents,” he said.The Zoom founder’s comments come amid ongoing debates among tech leaders about AI’s impact on the workforce. Opinions vary widely: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years, while Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis envisions AI driving major breakthroughs and a future of “radical abundance,” despite potential risks.