I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that if most of us who work for a living won “enough” money in a lottery (or maybe at the roulette wheel), we would probably quit our job and do whatever we want for the rest of our lives. Since the odds of such a windfall are minuscule, let’s focus instead on what’s happening in the workplace and what knowledge workers, IT decision-makers, and business leaders think about work and the people who perform and manage it.
HP just published its second annual Work Relationship Index (WRI) report. It’s based on a survey of more than 15,000 workers from 12 countries, from Australia to the United States. The survey includes 12,000 knowledge workers (1,000 from each country), 2,400 IT decision-makers (200 from each country), and 1,200 business leaders (100 from each country).
As expected, the survey had some surprising and not surprising results.
There’s a lot of data to unpack, but here are two areas of the report that are particularly interesting:
People’s relationship with work remains unhealthy.
AI usage has “exploded,” which could be vital to driving a better relationship with work while unlocking a personalized work experience for knowledge workers. But it’s also concerning for workers.
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