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Dec 2024
24m 11s

Employees Don’t Care About AI

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Executives are all-in on AI, but many workers are not: A recent survey of white-collar employees conducted by Slack shows workplace AI adoption has slowed, even stalled, in recent months. On this week’s Reqless, Paul and Rich explore the various reasons Slack’s respondents gave for their reticence and what they suggest about the current moment in tech. Is the issue the tools? Or is it how they’re being asked to use them—or if they’re being asked to use them at all.

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