There is one awkward question buried in the latest round of workplace AI discussion: how high can a person climb up the tech career ladder before the paychecks stop growing? As technology spans from relatively low-paying support work to deep expertise and specialisation. However, automation is not the only factor in play: companies are pushing…
BY EDISON JOSEPH GONZALES If employees are already using artificial intelligence (AI) several times a week, the next productivity question may be less about getting them to use it and more about teaching them what they are missing. At a company workshop led by Filipino AI business strategist Jerry Ilao, founding president and co-founder of…
The popular narrative around AI in the workplace is filled with doom and gloom. Pundits constantly predict that algorithms will eliminate knowledge workers and replace corporate teams. The reality on the ground is proving to be the exact opposite. When smart companies give their staff access to AI coding tools and teams of builders, those…
Why experienced workers are the biggest holdout Among respondents who do not currently use AI, more than 76% said they are unlikely to start within the next 12 months, according to Pipedrive’s data. More than half of all AI resistance in the survey comes from professionals aged 35 to 54. These are experienced workers who…
Last month, after spending three hours tweaking a draft to satisfy nearly 20 rounds of automated feedback, Hanoi communications specialist Minh Phuong, 26, stared at another cold notification: “Article unsatisfactory. Further edits required.” A year earlier, she had been thrilled by AI’s potential to streamline editing and spark new ideas. She had spent weeks creating…
A poll of 2,000 employees found 88% have embraced artificial intelligence in their jobs, including research tools, writing or content generation, and data analysis tools. More than half of workers (52%) are convinced they actually complete tasks faster because of AI and a quarter claim it has transformed their role. However, of those who use…
Nearly half of Millennials are using AI at work (Image: Getty) A poll of 2,000 employees found that Millennials (46%) are the ones who have embraced the technology the most – ahead of Gen Z (43%) and Gen X (38%). Meanwhile, more men (51%) than women (38%) think AI has increased their productivity – a…
One night after work in Dublin, Maahir Sharma watched an AI agent that he built call hotels in the United States and negotiate room rates on his behalf. The project wasn’t part of his job. It was one of many AI experiments he pursues outside work to stay current in an industry being reshaped by…
BEIJING – Shanghai lawyer Xie Jingyi regularly uses artificial intelligence (AI) for work, even though she does not trust it entirely, wary of “hallucinations” or false information presented as fact. She uses tools such as DeepSeek and Doubao for the efficiency gains. Instead of spending hours on an online database to find legal precedents, the…
The episode is not merely a Silicon Valley curiosity. For HR leaders who are currently designing, implementing, or being asked to justify AI adoption programs — which is to say, most of them — it is a live demonstration of a failure mode that is easy to build and hard to reverse. What Amazon Built,…
