Finding 1
2.3/10
Australian workers rate AI at work 2.3 out of 10 in the week of 7 September.
38 people reported in the week of 7 September, and the figure has risen 0.3 points since we started counting.
AI at Work TrackerThe weekly tracker
Workers are feeling more positive about A.I. at work in the week of 7 September (^23%), but overall sentiment is still very bad (2.3/10)
The four week average sits at 2.1 (1=bad, 10=good), so the latest 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.
This week
2.3/10
+0.4 on the week before
Responses this week
38
People who answered in this week
All responses
298
Across 9 weeks · 54 contributors
Key results
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Finding 2
1.6 points
TAS sits at 1.4 out of 10 while SA sits at 3.0, the widest gap in the data.
Split by state or territory, from 33 and 38 reports.
Finding 3
12.1x
People rating AI 1 to 3 are 12.1 times as likely to had AI named or implied as the reason as people rating it 8 to 10.
51 per cent against 4 per cent, from 258 and 24 reports.
Finding 4
55 per cent
55 per cent of people in the week of 7 September picked "i'm being pushed to use AI whether it helps or not".
Chosen by 21 of the people who reported in the week of 7 September.
Finding 5
68
68 reports so far describe a colleague leaving and not being replaced.
AI was named or clearly implied as the reason in 138 of them.
Voices this week
Written by contributors in their own words, checked by a person before publishing, and stripped of anything that could identify them.
“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.”
“Management keeps calling it a productivity tool. From where I sit it is a headcount tool with better marketing.”
“There is no policy, no training and no one to ask. We are all quietly working out what is safe to put into it.”
Sentiment over time
1 = bad · 10 = goodThe solid line is each week on its own. The dashed line behind it is the four week average, which is the one to watch for a real trend.
How it lands on different workers
Split by kind of work, Communications, media and design sits lowest at 1.9 out of 10 and IT and software highest at 2.6.
Groups sitting below the overall average are marked in purple. Any group with fewer than ten reports is left out rather than guessed at.
Bad weeks and good weeks are different weeks
Comparing everyone who rated AI 1 to 3 against everyone who rated it 8 to 10, on the same questions in the same weeks.
People who had AI named or implied as the reason12.1x
Rated AI 1 to 351%
Rated AI 8 to 104%
People who report a teammate leaving and not being replaced3.0x
Rated AI 1 to 325%
Rated AI 8 to 108%
People who say their job feels less secure than a year ago2.8x
Rated AI 1 to 335%
Rated AI 8 to 1013%
People who say AI cost them time that week1.8x
Rated AI 1 to 337%
Rated AI 8 to 1021%
People who were asked to train, correct or supervise an AI system0.9x
Rated AI 1 to 344%
Rated AI 8 to 1046%
Making work worse
I'm being pushed to use AI whether it helps or not55%
My workload has gone up, not down47%▼ 1
I'm worried about my job security45%▲ 5
The work coming out of it is worse, and I'm fixing it40%▲ 5
Nobody has asked staff what we think37%▲ 4
Safety, quality or ethics concerns are being waved through32%▲ 18
Making work better
Nothing in this column this week.
Rising fastest over the past month
Reasons people are picking more often now than they were four weeks ago.
- The work coming out of it is worse, and I'm fixing it40%up 26 points
- Safety, quality or ethics concerns are being waved through32%up 9 points
- I'm being pushed to use AI whether it helps or not55%up 8 points
- My workload has gone up, not down47%up 6 points
47%
Had AI pushed on them
29%
Asked to train or fix AI
21%
Lost a teammate, not replaced
24%
Feel less secure than a year ago
The quiet count
Every week somebody reports a colleague who went and was never replaced. No employer publishes that figure, so we are keeping the running tally ourselves.
68
Reports of a teammate leaving and not being replaced
138
Of those, where AI was named or clearly implied as the reason
By sector
The average score out of 10 that workers gave when asked how they feel about A.I. at work, grouped by the industry they work in, where 1 is bad and 10 is good. A sector is left out until at least ten people have reported from it.
Engineering40 responses2.5/10
Manufacturing39 responses2.0/10
Education38 responses3.0/10
Technology38 responses2.5/10
Public sector36 responses2.4/10
Health34 responses2.1/10
Telecommunications34 responses1.7/10
Finance33 responses1.4/10
Who is in this data
54 people have signed up, and between them they have sent 298 weekly reports across 9 weeks. It is self reported and it is not a random sample, so read it as the experience of the people taking part rather than a poll of the whole workforce. Any week or sector with fewer than ten responses is held back so nobody can be picked out of it.
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