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The original title: "49% of people are afraid of AI taking jobs!" There is not enough time for two or three dozen workers, and the report on Microsoft's annual work trend index has been breached. "

In its annual work trend report, Microsoft summarizes three insights that business leaders must recognize.

Now, workers all over the world are involved.

AI is creating a whole new way of working, which suddenly accelerates the pace that human beings can hardly catch up with.

Microsoft recently released its 2023 work trend Index report, which focuses on what workers think of AI and the impact of AI on productivity.

According to the report, 2/3 of respondents said they did not have enough time and energy to get the job done, while up to 49 per cent were worried that AI would affect their jobs.

With the unstoppable shift from platform to AI, AI has revolutionized the way we work, and now the pace of work has grown exponentially, followed by data, information, and always-on requirements.

The consequences of all these burdens are borne by migrant workers, and in the increasingly uncertain economic environment, business bosses feel more and more pressure to improve productivity.

At the expense of creativity, we need to spend more and more time separating signals from noise.

The cost of personal productivity has been affected, undermining corporate productivity and global GDP.

AI can certainly help lighten our burdens.

So far, AI has not been very closely integrated with people most of the time. In the future, it will work with us to liberate us from digital debt and promote new innovation.

Enterprises that embrace AI will unleash great creativity, usher in a new round of productivity growth, and create new value.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Nadella said--

The new generation of AI will eliminate all the drudgery and truly unleash human creativity.

AI-driven tools have the potential to reduce digital debt, enhance AI capabilities, and empower employees.

To prepare business leaders for the AI era, the Microsoft team surveyed 31000 users in 31 countries and analyzed trillions of Microsoft productivity signals and labor trends from LinkedIn economic charts.

The survey shows that bosses must pay attention to the following three issues when adopting AI quickly and responsibly.

Digital debt is taking a toll on innovation

There is a new alliance of artificial intelligence employees.

Every employee needs AI ability.

Digital debt is taking a toll on innovation-we are all burdened with digital debt: the frenzied influx of data, e-mails, meetings and notifications is beyond human resolution.

Moreover, the pace of work will only get faster and faster. None of these tasks can be missed, so we devote all our time to getting out of this predicament.

Nearly 2/3 of people (64 per cent) said they had little time and energy to get their work done, so they were more likely to get stuck in innovation and strategic thinking.

There are only 24 hours a day, and for every extra minute we spend on these digital debts, we spend less time on creative work.

In a world where creativity is productivity, digital debt is not just a hassle, it also directly affects the business.

Sixty-eight percent of people said they did not have enough time to concentrate on the workday to allow them to do things without interruption.

Sixty-eight percent of people said they didn't have enough uninterrupted focus on their workdays. Over the past few years, working hours, working days and meeting hours have all continued to increase, resulting in easier communication than ever. And it's harder to catch up all the time.

If you take a closer look at how employees spend their workdays, you will find that lack of focus time, continuous search for information, and continuous communication all have opportunity costs.

Sixty percent of respondents said they simply didn't have enough uninterrupted focus time during the workday.

62% of respondents said they spent too much time searching for information on weekdays.

In the Microsoft 365 app, employees spend an average of 57% of their time talking in meetings, e-mail, and chat apps, and 43% of their time is spent creating documents, forms, and PPT.

The top 25% of heavy email users spend 8.8 hours a week on email, while the top 25% of meeting heavy users spend 7.5 hours a week on meetings.

This is the global average for front-line workers, and for knowledge workers who rely more on digital communications, e-mail and meetings account for an even greater proportion.

AI can tilt the allocation of time to a more beneficial direction for people, saving them time and energy and making important innovations.

Data on the five major barriers to productivity improvement show that there is an urgent need to improve the efficiency of meetings-"inefficient meetings" are considered to be the number one productivity destroyer.

Inefficient meetings are voted as the number one productivity destroyer data show that it is very urgent to improve the efficiency of meetings.

Since February 2020, the number of weekly Teams meetings and phone calls has increased threefold (192%).

The third place to gain productivity damage is that there are too many meetings.

Fifty-eight percent of respondents said it was difficult to brainstorm in a virtual meeting, 57 percent said it was difficult to keep up with the pace if they joined the meeting too late, and 55 percent said that even at the end of the meeting, they still don't know what to do next; 56% of respondents said it was difficult to summarize the content of the meeting.

Today, only 1/3 of people (35%) think they will be mentioned in most meetings, but the fear of FOMO (Fear of missing out) is real, and everyone is afraid of missing out on important things.

When asked what would make the meeting more valuable, the first answer to the vote was "get information to help me get the job done better", followed by feedback, decisions, and career improvement.

With AI, each meeting becomes an aggregate of data, not just for a period of time.

These data can be accessed, transcribed and rearranged at any time, so that they can be used more efficiently.

A new alliance of artificial intelligence employees has seen that AI has grown so much in the past year that everyone is worried that their jobs will be replaced by AI, but they are actually eager to get AI to do his job.

Amid fears that artificial intelligence will replace work, the data reveal an unexpected situation: employees are more eager for artificial intelligence to reduce the burden of work than fear of losing their jobs.

Although 49% of people said they were worried that artificial intelligence would replace their jobs, more people (70%) would entrust as much work as possible to artificial intelligence to reduce their workload.

People are more excited that artificial intelligence will save them from burnout than they worry that it will eliminate their jobs.

People are looking for artificial intelligence to help almost all possibilities of their work.

I wish I could give the whole person to AI.

3/4 of migrant workers tell us that not only are they willing to use artificial intelligence for management tasks (76 per cent), but most also say they are willing to use it for analysis (79 per cent) or even creative work (73 per cent).

People are also looking for artificial intelligence to help them find the right information and answers they need (86%), summarize their meetings and action projects (80%), and plan their day (77%).

The benefits that AI can provide to migrant workers are much more than that.

Workers can also use AI to improve their creativity. From developing ideas for their jobs (76%) to replanning their work (75%).

The more you know about artificial intelligence, the more workers will see its hope for helping them accomplish the most meaningful part of their work.

For example, 87% of employees in creative jobs that are very familiar with artificial intelligence say they will be happy to use artificial intelligence in jobs that require creativity.

It seems that what workers cannot bear more than the magic damage caused by losing their job is the "flesh and blood suffering" caused by the job itself.

What kind of productivity changes will AI bring? bosses are twice as likely to choose to "improve employee productivity" than to "reduce the number of employees" when asked about the greatest emphasis on artificial intelligence in the workplace.

In the eyes of the boss, AI is not regarded as the best employee. Instead, business leaders want AI to arm employees better, not replace them.

Bosses are twice as interested in using artificial intelligence to improve productivity as layoffs. Moreover, reducing the number of employees is the last thing bosses expect to gain value from artificial intelligence. After "improving productivity", leaders' best hopes for artificial intelligence are as follows:

Help employees complete necessary but repetitive tasks

Improve employee welfare

Eliminate the time employees spend on low-value activities

Enhance the ability of employees, and speed up the pace of work.

Ten years later, when asked what VS.AI they want to do 10 years later, the workers surveyed said that the most desired change was to save them time, such as high-quality work and faster learning of new skills.

Imagine what will happen to your job by 2030. If you can make any of the following changes to your work experience without any extra effort, what do you value most? (the survey asked employees if you had a dream about a job, what would you want him to be?

Migrant workers dream: I hope I don't have to work (slip of the tongue)

1. Complete high-quality work in half the time (33%)

two。 Be able to understand the most valuable time (26%) and energy (25%)

3. And no longer need to mentally absorb unnecessary or irrelevant information (23%)

Bosses surveyed by us say employees must learn when to use artificial intelligence, how to write good tips, how to evaluate creative work and how to check for harmful content.

As artificial intelligence "reorganizes the workplace", the collaboration between people and artificial intelligence will become the next transformative mode of work, and the ability to work with artificial intelligence will become a key skill for every employee.

New skills, new ways of working

60% of the workers said that they do not have the ability to work at present. Artificial intelligence will open up a new way for learning.

Whether bosses can prepare workers for the coming AI era is the key to the success of the company.

Migrant workers need to develop these new skills from today.

Compared with a year ago, the number of posts on LinkedIn referring to topics such as generative AI and GPT has increased 33 times.

"with the introduction of generative artificial intelligence, we are in the next stage of change, which has begun to reshape the labour market," said Karin Kimbrough, chief economist at LinkedIn.

As of March 2023, the proportion of US job openings with GPT mentioned on LinkedIn had increased by 79 per cent year-on-year. The survey found that 82% of bosses said their employees needed new skills to prepare for the development of artificial intelligence.

So what actions can we take?

For migrant workers, they may need to take the initiative to adapt to a new way of working and learn how to work with AI.

Bosses also need to re-recognize the positioning and responsibilities of jobs along with the evolution of AI to provide room for possible innovation.

For overburdened employees and bosses looking to improve productivity, it's time for the AI era to change its posture and start all over again.

AI will not only help you solve some problems at work, it will create a whole new way of working.

Bosses quickly help their workers learn to kill others together with artificial intelligence, so that their own enterprises can have a future.

Of course, Microsoft's reason for doing this survey may be to tell the bosses--

We happen to have a lot of powerful AI products on our side.

If the bosses don't buy it, others will kill your company if they buy it.

Reference:

Https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/will-ai-fix-work

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era)

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