Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings - TechCrunch

Anthropic has published a report stating that its workforce has become less junior and that technical teams now represent a smaller share of its staff than before, TechCrunch reported on 17 October 2026. The report states that the share of staff in technical teams fell from 61% to 56%. It attributes part of that decline to coding tools, which allow non-technical employees to make software.

The report cites an April 2026 survey of employees. In that survey, 27% of employees said Claude made them more productive. A further 20% said their job had shifted "from actually doing work to managing Claudes." Those two figures are the only survey results the article quotes. TechCrunch also reports that staff are spending more time in meetings. The article does not state how many employees responded to the survey or which teams they worked in.

The figures describe Anthropic's own employees rather than its customers, and come from an internal company survey rather than an external study. Anthropic is the maker of Claude, the model named in the survey responses quoted in the report. The movement in technical headcount from 61% to 56% is characterised as a change in the composition of the workforce, with coding tools presented as one factor behind it. No absolute headcount figures, hiring volumes, or totals for technical roles are given in the article. The report was published on 17 October 2026.