Jobs on the Edge is a Skimmy Stories series exploring the roles most at risk of being replaced by AI — and the human value that remains when machines take over.

In “Office Clerks in the Cloud,” AI assistants take over scheduling, invoices, and paperwork. Entire departments of admin work vanish almost overnight. For decades, clerical jobs were seen as some of the safest careers in the world — but now, many may not exist at all.

Follow Skimmy Stories for more episodes in the Jobs on the Edge series — quick, thought-provoking looks at the future of work.