A New Survey Finds Executives and Employees Think About AI Implementation Differently

According to a survey of 17,000 desk workers worldwide by Slack, employees and executives have different thoughts when it comes to using AI and its adoption in workplaces. 97% of the executives say that they are planning to invest on AI implementation, and 97% said that they want to do it as soon as possible. In the past month, the percentage of Americans who were happy to work with AI dropped from 45% to 36%. The UK, France and Japan also showed a decline in interest related to AI implementation.

This shows that even though many business leaders and executives are investing more and more on AI, employees do not seem too enthusiastic about it. On the other hand, there was some increase in AI usage in the US. According to the estimations, the usage of AI increased from 32% to 33% between March and August 2024. This is a slow growth rate, but it is still something.

76% of the employees surveyed also said that they are feeling an urgency to learn AI and it is making them anxious and less productive. But there are also employees who say that technology helps them with administrative tasks (87%), core work projects (80%) and creative work (81%). But they think that using AI is going to increase their workload.

Top three reasons why workers do not want to use AI are because they think that they are cheating (47%), they fear that other people will see them as lazy (46%) and fear that others will see them as less competent (46%).

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World