The New Social Contract: Who Owns Workforce Transformation in the Age of AI?

For decades, the implicit social contract between universities, employers, and individuals was simple: employers provided job security and career progression; employees provided loyalty and performance; universities prepared talent for entry into the workforce. Today that contract is unraveling, leaving us with an urgent and unresolved question: Who owns workforce transformation in the age of AI?

• Is it the individual's responsibility to continuously upskill?
• What role should skills providers play in building scalable workforce systems?
• And what must employers design differently as Gen Z becomes a growing share of the workforce?

This 20-minute cross-generational dialogue, Colin Coggins, SVP of Chegg Skills and Adjunct Professor at USC, joins a Gen Z early career professional to examine how the social contract of work is being rewritten and what employers must do now to ensure talent grows alongside technology rather than falls behind it.