About
An investigation of the present, not a prediction about the future.
Layoffs. Long-term unemployment. AI-assisted hiring. Algorithmic screening. Career reinvention. The erosion of traditional career paths. Experienced professionals struggling to get through an initial screening process.
There are plenty of explanations for what’s happening. There is considerably less investigation into what it feels like to live through it—and what the evidence actually tells us.
Deprecated Human combines lived experience, conversations with people navigating the change, expert perspectives, and research to understand what’s happening beneath the headlines.
About the host
Jess Lowry
Jess Lowry is a sociotechnical researcher, systems strategy leader, and founder of ENID Studio.
For more than 20 years, her work has explored the relationship between people, technology, organizations, and the systems in which work happens.
After experiencing the disruption reshaping the technology industry firsthand—and watching increasingly experienced professionals struggle to navigate a changing job market—she created Deprecated Human to investigate what was happening.
Her work has always focused on the space between systems and people—and what happens when that relationship breaks down.