College Hiring is Back, Meta & Microsoft Cut Headcount, & Tokenmaxxing is the New Trend

April 24, 2026: The Wall Street Journal reports entry-level hiring is rebounding — but IBM's HR chief says AI can already do almost everything those jobs used to require, and ZipRecruiter's data shows 73% of grads are now considering gig or trade work because corporate entry roles have dried up. Business Insider investigates "tokenmaxxing" — the new corporate sport where employees at Disney, Meta, and JPMorgan compete to burn the most AI tokens — and a new study of 22,000 developers shows exactly what that's doing to actual work quality. And The Guardian reports Meta cutting 8,000 jobs and Microsoft offering buyouts to 9,000 people on the same day they announce hundreds of billions in new AI investment.

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College Hiring is Back, Meta & Microsoft Cut Headcount, & Tokenmaxxing is the New Trend is an episode from The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan by Jacob Morgan.

This episode is 36:33 long.

This episode was published on Apr 24, 2026.

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