Could AI Make Some Jobs Too Easy?
AI tools are making it possible to accomplish some tasks incredibly fast. That sounds great, but it could also be causing a problem for leaders. This week, Korn Ferry explores how using AI in the workplace could create an employee-engagement issue for firms that don’t restructure job roles. Plus, the Briefings Podcast looks into why there’s been a significant jump in CEO departures in 2023.
The Idle AI Workday
A year ago, the list of key tasks might have taken up a full day of the sales manager’s time. This time around? More like 30 minutes.
The sudden emergence of new AI tools has left many workers fretting about the future of their jobs. But there’s a more immediate concern: AI idleness. For workers who have done the hard part of learning how to use it, the new technology may bring some unexpected free time and even boredom to roles that were formerly complex and demanding. The result, for companies, may be a workforce that is neither particularly engaged nor particularly efficient. ?
5 Tips for Making Friends at Work
Loneliness, which the US Surgeon General has called a serious health hazard, is growing at the workplace. The hybrid-work culture is partly responsible—it’s hard to make friends when people come in on different days—as is a tough economy that’s adding to people’s stress and their capacity to be friendly.
In fact, only?two in ten workers in the US?say they have a best friend at work. Globally, that number is only three in ten. With the approach of the holidays, often a time of increased loneliness, experts say workers should strive to build friendships. But how?
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In this podcast episode, we get to the bottom of this mystery.?
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1 年Regarding the 5 tips for making friends at work article; it is true that pademia increased loneliness at work and based on my experience also in our day to day... We need to take a step back and go to the basics of human society,,, "Communication and Socialization in person"..
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1 年Thanks for sharing
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1 年Wow KF, this is off the mark. If AI makes jobs too easy, employers will quickly learn to kill jobs and take advantage of the productivity increase. Also, it has been my experience with AI that it makes my job much more interesting and improves the quality of my work products. It removes the mundane tasks and allows me to work on the thinkgs that matter more to the organization. Also, so what if it makes our jobs easier. Maybe this will lead to the 4-day work week.
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1 年If 'AI' makes jobs too easy for humans it will be a good machine for employees to focus on other things with less stress but we must continue to have the human component as well to avoid dependency and risk.