Goldman Sachs Research specifically flagged marketing consulting as one of the industries showing below-trend employment growth attributable to AI, a designation that tracks directly with the junior research role. Scheduling, inbox management, expense reporting, and meeting coordination, once the backbone of the administrative assistant role, are now largely handled by AI scheduling tools, smart communication platforms, and automated workflow software. AI chatbots now handle up to 80% of tier-one support inquiries at companies that have deployed them, and the human role has compressed to the complex escalations that AI cannot yet resolve.