Despite all the top-down topics around Enterprise AI, most job seekers are not convinced that they are making their work life easier.
As part of a larger study of job hunting status in 2024, the CV Pushplat Platform resume genius considered attitudes towards AI among the 1,000 job seekers, finding that 69% doubted the AI's ability to enhance job performance.
Consistent with the majority opinion that AI in the workplace is not impressed, only 34% of respondents said they are worried that bots will be replaced, but they believe that AI will increase competition for employment or harmful salaries.
They are categorized by generations (boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z job seekers responded) and the results are roughly the same.
In short, Genius' findings on resumes are consistent with other recent research suggesting that enterprise AI hype is not meeting marketing promises.
No one wants this except the sales team.
There's no need to go far to find rich evidence of workers' lack of enthusiasm for enterprise AI – we've covered it a lot Register.
In July, Upwork covered a survey on AI use in the workplace. This shows that 77% of employees who are pushing to use AI productivity tools in their workplaces are less productive. Many employees report that management feels pressured to employers to use money-drinking AI tools, with 65% saying they are struggling to meet the increasing demands that bosses expect to help AI meet.
That's not to say that you're willing to embrace AI in ADOBE (which itself is marketing enterprise AI tools).
Of course, reality appears to be different when rubber meets the road. Last month, AI data services company Appen discovered that the return on investment (ROI) for AI projects has decreased, and investments are less likely to reach deployment.
Although Appen believes much of this is due to a lack of good training data, Gartner suggested in May that “difficulty in estimating and demonstrating the value of AI projects” is a major obstacle to the success of AI adoption.
In other words, C-Suite is won by shiny presentations and hype from companies like Microsoft, but with the “all-all co-pilot” attitude, but not rewarded in its actual usage.
It is doubtful whether AI vendors will notice such shortcomings. Microsoft certainly isn't. Redmond raised Copilot's price by 5% last week, introducing a monthly billing option that includes a year's commitment. Meanwhile, employees seem to be unhappy with the tools being pushed. I hope things get better before AI gets worse. ®
