As featured in
AI and the ICT labour market - between hype and long-term effect.
In Swissquote Magazine (Issue 96, December 2025), our co-founder Klaus Fuchs offers a grounded read on what AI is doing to the ICT labour market - not disruption-or-collapse headlines, but a structural recalibration. The throughline: work isn't disappearing, it's being redistributed toward depth.
AI is redefining where value is created, not eliminating jobs indiscriminately. Roles built on standardised, transferable tasks - classic frontend, mobile - lose relative prominence; that's maturation, not crisis. The premium moves to people who train and deploy models, navigate regulation, and turn capability into business outcomes.
After years of rewarding speed and youth, the balance is tilting back toward experience. The most valuable profiles pair technical skill with domain and regulatory fluency - Basel and MiCA in finance, cleared profiles in defense, risk-and-compliance in insurance. Experience, judgment and context are strategic assets again.
This is Europe's quiet advantage - regulatory competence, industrial depth, experienced talent. And where Switzerland fits: not competing head-on with US platforms, but as a highly specialised AI hub. The takeaway is mindset, not diagnosis - long-term positioning beats short-term reaction. That depth-first view is exactly how we recruit.
“Work is not disappearing - it is being redistributed toward depth.”
What this means
The read for both sides of the market.
For companies
- Re-weight toward depth. The value has moved from transferable tasks to people who can train, deploy and govern models.
- Regulatory fluency is a moat. In finance, defense, insurance and health, domain-and-compliance knowledge is the hire that pays off.
- Position long, not reactive. Building specialised capability now beats chasing the headline skill of the month.
For candidates
- Experience is back in demand. The market is tilting from speed-and-youth toward judgment and context.
- Specialise, don't generalise. Pair AI skill with a regulated domain and you become hard to replace.
- Switzerland rewards depth. A specialised AI hub built on research, stability and rising ML demand.