Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high expectations of managers and the actual experiences of employees using AI.

Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, the study reveals that, 77% of employees using AI say it has added to their workload and created challenges in achieving the expected productivity gains. Not only is AI increasing the workloads of full-time employees, it’s hampering productivity and contributing to employee burnout.

  • @ripcordEnglish
    6•1 month ago

    I’ll say that so far I’ve been pretty unimpressed by Codeium.

    At the very most it has given me a few minutes total of value in the last 4 months.

    Ive gotten some benefit from various generic chat LLMs like ChatGPT but most of that has been somewhat improved versions of the kind of info I was getting from Stackexchange threads and the like.

    There’s been some mild value in some cases but so far nothing earth shattering or worth a bunch of money.

    • @TrickDacyEnglish
      5•1 month ago

      I have never heard of Codeium but it says it’s free, which may explain why it sucks. Copilot is excellent. Completely life changing, no. That’s not the goal. The goal is to reduce the manual writing of predictable and boring lines of code and it succeeds at that.

      • @rekorseEnglish
        3•1 month ago

        Cool totally worth burning the planet to the ground for it. Also love that we are spending all this time and money to solve this extremely important problem of coding taking slightly too long.

        Think of all the progress being made!

        • @rottingleafEnglish
          1•1 month ago

          That instead of macros for code generation, templates and just using higher-level languages.

        • @TrickDacyEnglish
          0•1 month ago

          Must be nice that life is so simple

    • @jj4211English
      3•1 month ago

      I presume it depends on the area you would be working with and what technologies you are working with. I assume it does better for some popular things that tend to be very verbose and tedious.

      My experience including with a copilot trial has been like yours, a bit underwhelming. But I assume others must be getting benefit.