AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health

Companies are enthusiastic for employees to use artificial intelligence at work, and Multiple reports and Status studies Refer to Productivity gains That comes from Adopting technology. But with the workers relied heavily on artificial intelligence, the new research highlights the potential effects on their mental health.

Employees who benefit from The latest artificial intelligence tools I reported a 40 % increase in its productivity, according to New report From the independent platform UpWork. On their part, the leaders of C-SUITE note-77 % say they have noticed productivity gains from the adoption of artificial intelligence.

But although workers are accomplishing more, they pay high emotional losses. The majority (88 %) has been one of the most enabled workers of artificial intelligence about the feelings of exhaustion due to the increase in the work burden. As a result, these workers are likely to think about giving up their jobs.

“This is a flashing red light for the spirit: the productivity gains can disappear overnight if the high performance comes out of the door,” says Kelly Monhman, director of the UpWork Research Institute. luck.

Artificial intelligence in the workplace has other effects on workers from just fatigue. About 62 % of workers say they are unclear about how technology contributes to the end result of their company. More than two -thirds of the employees who use artificial intelligence say that they have better relationships with them than their human colleagues, which contributes to feeling separated and recovered.

Monhaman says artificial intelligence does not only change what people do in the workplace. It changes the “social engineering” of the office.

“Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly colleague, and it is no longer just a tool for background,” she says. “CROS reinstitates the workflow, roles and even job tracks, so that human beings and artificial intelligence agents complete each other.”

Pret Morsi
brit.morse@fortune.com

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