77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads

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[mmmhorsesteaks]

The great thing about ai is that people are finally shutting up about blockchain.

[arifurrahman]

I’ve noticed a correlation between increased workloads and employee layoffs. Essentially, companies seem to be replacing 50% of their workforce with AI and expecting the remaining employees to take on the additional responsibilities of those who were let go.

[infinitivez]

Fire 50% of their work force, then wonder why the remaining employees are complaining they're being worked to the bone.
I never worried so much about losing my job to AI, I always worried management would listen to some 20 minute lecture and be fooled into downsizing, thinking it was the solution to all their staffing problems. Imagine my surprise, seeing it unfold in real time.

[LiminalThought]

My mom is a tax professional working at a multinational corporation. The job itself is stressful enough. She was in a department of 5 where they had this fresh grad just doing data entry. The kid was great, I met him a few times. Just sits there quietly, doing his work. 99.5% accurately from what I've been told. Some AI startup came along, promised to eliminate his position and many others, management jumped on it and the AI is absolute dog doo doo. It's only about 10% accurate and costs more than the kid alone lol. The corporation has decided to stop using the AI but refused to hire on a person which makes zero sense. My mom who hasn't done data entry in decades is now stuck doing Jr level work, while also being expected to complete her own duties. This **** is ridiculous. She is about a molecule away form walking out and I can't wayt for that day. They'll have to hire at least 2 people at her salary each to get the same amount of work done. I saw job postings from them but didn't bother applying. F em.

[cameronperry]

As someone who has worked at several tech companies, I can tell you those years were unbelievably unproductive. I was worked into oblivion, don’t get me wrong, but I was working on a whole lot of nothing. I was expected to learn countless pieces of software that were supposed to help us stay organized, make us more efficient, and that kind of thing. They never did. Just made work more difficult. No one ever followed the process. Everyone pretty much just made their own rules. I remember I was using a project management software at one company and at one point another department decided to use a different project management software. We then had to learn their project management software because we always worked with them. Instead of building out projects in one piece of software, now we had to build it in two. I had to check off tasks in two softwares and oh by the way, had to send an email and a slack message on top of that to our stakeholders anytime a project was finished, then I’d have to monitor all 4 channels to capture any feedback. It was just absolutely ridiculous.

[TOracle]

Bad management is the problem. Listen to your employees people, you hired them for their expertise!

[Huey-ec]

My org is trying to implement AI to replace humans, upper-management has blocked off negative feedback about AI so that they can continue overpromising so that C-Suite doesn't hear anything except that it's cutting costs. We're all hauling ass working overtime to try and keep up with the promised speed of AI. It's like the car in flintstones where it's really just a few dudes pedaling for their life.

[kstxevolution]

ironically, the best job AI is suited for is management. imagine if we didn't need work our assess off to pay the salary of a CEO

[ShootingUtah]

It's funny that managers and companies will complain about employees not coming back to face to face work but then hire a freelancer whom they never even see and could be in an entirely different country!!! WTF!!!

[BinaryAdventure]

Tech has a massive, massive, systemic pattern of just throwing the newest thing at every problem when it wasn't designed to solve every problem and in fact can make many problems harder to solve, not easier. It's very odd to me that with so many so-called "smart" and "genius" people that we have, we all collectively do this over and over and over and expect different results.

[nada_]

There is one major reason why freelancers are more efficient than full-time employees, freelancers don't have useless, and knowledgeable management and higher-ups implementing wasteful, redundant, and pointless policies onto their employees. I worked a retail job where my certain department was so small, just me and another guy, that they removed the Manager position for our department. Everything immediately improved, because the people responsible for making the big decisions where the people doing the actual job

[alexandrecolautoneto]

Oh wow! who imagined that the only developer left would take the work of the 5 fired for AI-native?

[gslim]

When Autocad first started it was considered revolutionary in respect to drawings and drafting. It was expected to reduce the workload for draftsman as replication and copying was greatly simplified. As exactly mentioned, expectations on what can be produced sky-rocketed at the same time.

[oscardiggs]

I love when management makes decisions based on an article they read on a plane. Here is that article.

[apina]

Increase in productivity never translates to people working less, just less people working

[mihainita]

About freelancers and productivity:
as a freelancer you can afford to not give crap about quality. You will not have to maintain that code for a long time. And when that code explodes or gets expoited, you are long gone.

[atomatopia]

On the point of farmers working 6-7 day workweeks, they also typically stopped working when the sun went down and during winter (in colder climates) not to mention not everyone was a farmer at the time

[ShootingUtah]

The one rule I've learned about business is that any manager, CEO, or C-Suite person is NOT there based on merit! They're there because they are the grey man who was just competent enough but not too confident to threaten their own boss's job. This effectively means that the world is run by midwits! The average among us! If you stand out too much you'll literally get forced out because you make your "superiors" look bad. The other half of these people are the people willing to f*ck people over just enough to not lose clients or customers but what they're doing is still immoral or illegal in one way or another! There are an extremely small number of businesses or corporations where there's a true meritocracy!

[SeeAndDreamify]

This article really nailed that Chat gpt writing style.

[KDill]

I can't imagine CEOs wanting more out of their employees and burning them out. This has never happened before. I can't believe it. Across 0 industries has it ever been tried.