Due to current developments concerning AI -based agents, many labor market players fear for their job. However, a new globalization Workday study draw up a different table: 83 % think that AI gives more importance to human skills and promotes creativity. This creates a new type of economic value added.
Global study – including Austrian respondents
In a new global study entitled “Raising human potential: the AI skills revolution” 2,500 full -time employees in 22 countries were questioned about their expectations in artificial intelligence. The study was commissioned by Workday and carried out by Hannover Research from Virginia. The results draw up a relatively optimistic table of the future and put fear that AI replaces humans in the background.
Working day is a large company platform based in the United States and based on AI which offers companies services such as asset management. THE study Led a year ago would have shown that only 52 % of employees were favorable to the use of AI at their workplace.
Active users see the advantages of AI
The survey results show that AI active users are the most positive with regard to new technology. This group evaluated its advantages with a note of 4.23 on 5 points. The people who plan to integrate AI into their daily work in the next 12 months but have not yet done it have given a note of 3.89 points. According to Workday, these interviewed people were particularly skeptical.
More time for “more significant” activities
Depending on the study, the reason why regular users find the support of AI tools is that artificial intelligence helps them focus better on higher level tasks. tasks such as strategies development and problem solving. In other words, AI helps them to release human capacities for more significant activities.
In addition, 90 percent of employees said that AI ensure greater transparency and a clear responsibility within the company. Managers (92 %) are even more convinced than employees (89 %).
Interpersonal relations in the AI era
Another key conclusion of the study highlights the way in which interpersonal relationships in the workplace evolve thanks to AI. The responses vary according to the hierarchical level: while 82 percent of employees estimate that the need for human interaction will increase and also consider it as necessary, only 65 percent of managers think so. This is the most obvious gap noted in the study between employees and managers.
R.Evaluation of personal skills
Workday, which claims to serve more than 60 % of Fortune 500 companies, concludes: “Unique human qualities such as Ethical decision -making, empathy, relationship establishment and conflict resolution Skills are considered essential to succeed in an AI -focused economy.»» These are the four most important human skills that AI is the least likely to replace.