---
id: "quote-retraining-essential"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["¶15"]
tags: ["reskilling", "automation-threat"]
related: ["concept-skill-diversity-reduction", "action-reskill-automation-roles"]
speaker: "Suraj Srinivasan"
speakers: ["Suraj Srinivasan"]
quote: "Retraining is essential for jobs where generative AI is reducing skill diversity. In automation-prone occupations, workers may face displacement unless they develop non-automatable skills, such as judgment and interpersonal communication skills."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-35-ai-changing-labor-market"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/03/research-how-ai-is-changing-the-labor-market"
sourceTitle: "Research: How AI Is Changing the Labor Market"
---
# Retraining is Essential to Avoid Displacement

> "Retraining is essential for jobs where generative AI is reducing skill diversity. In automation-prone occupations, workers may face displacement unless they develop non-automatable skills, such as judgment and interpersonal communication skills."
> — [[entity-suraj-srinivasan|Suraj Srinivasan]]

Srinivasan highlights the urgent need for intervention where AI is stripping complexity from the job, warning of displacement unless **non-automatable skills** (judgment, interpersonal communication) are developed. This is the human voice of [[concept-skill-diversity-reduction]] and the mandate behind [[action-reskill-automation-roles]].