By 2030, over 200,000 U.S. accounting jobs alone may vanish (World Economic Forum). McKinsey estimates 60–70% of administrative tasks are fully automatable today. AI already resolves 85–95% of routine customer service queries.These numbers matter—for workforce size, lease demand, and real estate footprints. In the next sections, we break down the top six sectors facing AI-driven headcount collapse, the implications for office space, and why tenants need to act now.Make no mistake, the implications for this are everywhere. But the industries feeling the change hardest and fastest are the following:

1. Software. . .

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