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AI assistants are now commonly used in many workplaces. New research highlights productivity and wellbeing benefits but also reveals a gap between AI’s promises and workplace realities.
New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.
If you drop advanced AI into a dumb organisation, it won’t make it smart. It will just help the organisation do dumb stuff more efficiently (in other words, quicker).
Employers are embracing electronic surveillance tools. The technology is new but the thinking is old – and flawed.
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Employers have long feared that working from home makes employees less productive. An analysis of 3 million workers in 16 cities during lockdowns suggests the opposite.
Some of the latest findings about open-plan offices suggest that staff satisfaction and privacy decrease, people become less friendly and women feel watched and appraised on appearance.
Germany’s rising inequality shows what happens when consumers and companies don’t widely embrace innovation.
Health investments raise worker productivity, but firms may not observe changes in worker effort. Technology that measures physical activity demonstrates these potential gains.
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