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AUS WORKERS ARE FEELING BAD ABOUT A.I. AT WORK

current average 2.3/10

avg · 2.3
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2 out of 10, Bad

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What changed this week

Workers are feeling more positive about A.I. at work this week (^23%), but overall sentiment is still very bad (2.3/10)

  • The four week average sits at 2.1 (1=bad, 10=good), so this week is 0.2 above the recent run of results.
  • People saying "safety, quality or ethics concerns are being waved through" rose from 14 per cent to 32 per cent.
  • 21 per cent reported a teammate leaving and not being replaced, and AI was named or implied as a reason in 37 per cent of reports.
  • Finance is sitting well below everyone else at 1.4 out of 10.

2.3/10

AVERAGE SENTIMENT 1=BAD / 10=GOOD.

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People contributing

295

Weekly reports so far

What people picked most

  • I'm being pushed to use AI whether it helps or not55%
  • My workload has gone up, not down47%
  • I'm worried about my job security45%
  • The work coming out of it is worse, and I'm fixing it40%
“Two people went in March and the work just landed on the rest of us with a chatbot bolted on top. Nobody asked us whether it would actually help.”
Technology · NSW

Everything on this page comes from the answers people send in each week. Nothing is modelled or estimated, and a week only appears once enough people have answered that no single person can be picked out of it.

The record so far

What tech workers have told us

Every figure below is built from the weekly reports people send in. Where a group is too small to report on safely, it is left out rather than guessed at.

2.3/10

Sentiment this week

295

Weekly reports

51

People taking part

68

Reports of people leaving a team

Sentiment week by week

Scored from 1 (bad) to 10 (good), averaged across everyone who reported that week.

How each group feels

Finance is sitting lowest at 1.4, while Education sits highest at 3.0.

The reasons people gave this week

  • I'm being pushed to use AI whether it helps or not55%
  • My workload has gone up, not down47%
  • I'm worried about my job security45%
  • The work coming out of it is worse, and I'm fixing it40%
  • Nobody has asked staff what we think37%

THIS DATA COMES FROM REAL PEOPLE AND BELONGS TO THE COMMUNITY, NOT A TECH COMPANY.

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