{
  "id": 18727,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626",
  "title": "Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption",
  "summary": "arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an \"organizational technology ladder\": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted",
  "authors": "Gregor Schubert",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-13T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18727",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}