AI in the Workplace: Boosting Productivity or Just Hype?

A new study from Upwork shows that people have very different ideas about AI. While 96% of executives think AI makes them more productive, 77% of workers think it has made their jobs harder and less efficient.

Will AI help us all do our jobs better? People in charge are optimistic, but workers aren’t quite as sure. That’s what a new study from the freelancing site Upwork says.

The company says it polled 2,500 executives, full-time workers, and freelancers in the U.S, U.K, Australia, and Canada to find out what they thought about AI in the workplace.

It seems that 96% of C-suite executives said they think AI will make their company more productive, and 39% said their companies already require employees to use AI tools.

On the other hand, 77% of workers say AI has made them less productive and given them more work to do.

Additionally, 47% said they didn’t know how to boost their bosses’ productivity.