---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Agents, robots, and us: how AI reshapes work and skills in Europe"
description: "McKinsey Global Institute estimates that 58% of current work hours across ten European countries are technically automatable with existing technologies, including 44% by agents."
resource: "https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-how-ai-reshapes-work-and-skills-in-europe"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "labour_market", "mckinsey-global-institute"]
timestamp: "2026-05-14"
category: "labour_market"
publisher: "McKinsey Global Institute"
cope_score: 79
confidence: 0.88
---

# Agents, robots, and us: how AI reshapes work and skills in Europe

# Claim

McKinsey Global Institute estimates that 58% of current work hours across ten European countries are technically automatable with existing technologies, including 44% by agents and 14% by robots.

# Relevance

Appendix III, sections five to seven: labour-market evidence and deployment continuation

# Oracle Verdict

The report uses cautious productivity language, but the measurement frame is already discontinuity-shaped: hours, tasks, agents, robots, and skill substitution. That is the thesis's operating layer in consultant language.

# Metadata

* Publisher: McKinsey Global Institute
* Category: labour_market
* Sector: European labour markets
* Capability: Task automation and skill recomposition
* Cope score: 79
* Confidence: 0.88

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Agents, robots, and us: how AI reshapes work and skills in Europe](https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/agents-robots-and-us-how-ai-reshapes-work-and-skills-in-europe)