Job boundaries are becoming porous
An OpenAI report indicates that 43.5% of work-related ChatGPT messages concerning a specific task involve an activity historically associated with another occupation. A salesperson can explore a dataset; a marketing professional can troubleshoot a website or write a simple script.
This may widen autonomy and shorten delays. It may also add duties without removing existing workload, move verification to people who lack time or specialist expertise, and blur accountability.
Observe the work that is added
From an occupational-health perspective, the issue is not limited to job substitution. It also concerns work intensity, real autonomy, social relations, value conflicts and insecurity around changing skill expectations.
A safe organisation makes this new work visible: verification, arbitration, recovery after error, learning and coordination with specialists. It does not confuse technical capability with the professional capacity to answer for consequences.