Interesting – and Relevant – Statistics

From an Online Source come the following HR-related data points: 

• 23%: The percentage of front-line workers who said they think senior leaders understand their daily reality, according to a report based on ZipRecruiter’s Breakroom Workplace Index. 

• 38%: The percentage of employees who said they would rather have an AI manager than a person, according to a report from CalypsoAI, an AI security provider. 

• 40% to 52%: The percentage of full-time U.S. professionals surveyed who said they view supervisors who use high levels of AI-assisted writing as sincere, according to a study published in the International Journal of Business Communication. 
   

Other, separate research has produced the following: 

• A study by MIT has shown that up to 95 percent of generative AI pilot programs have little or no measurable profit-or-loss impact; and 

• A Gartner report indicates that up to 40 percent of “agentic AI projects might be cancelled by the end of 2027 because of costs, unclear business value, or inadequate risk controls. 

• The implementation of AI has adversely affected junior workers more than more experienced workers, according to a Stanford University study: “The researchers … found that “employment declines are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment, human labor.”