The Future of Jobs Report 2025 highlights how AI is transforming the job market, with data-driven roles like analysts and junior programmers most at risk. In contrast, manual and artisanal jobs鈥攕uch as shoemaking and leatherworking鈥攔emain largely irreplaceable due to their reliance on creativity, sensitivity, and human experience.
The manual work involved in shoemaking and bag-making is among those safe from AI. The skills required to create high-quality shoes and bags鈥攆rom selecting and processing materials to manually cutting leather, hand-stitching, and custom assembly鈥攄epend on intuition, sensitivity, and human experience, elements AI cannot fully replicate
