- Employers say time is more prohibitive than cost when it comes to AI training
- Anyway, no one really knows whose responsibility it is.
- Placing AI on top of overloaded teams causes friction
We’ve already seen countless studies revealing the need to upskill workers as their jobs will evolve with AI tools, but what those studies don’t mention is that leaders fully recognize this and are actually simply pressed for time.
New research from Indeed claims that one in two UK employers believe AI and automation will be the main drivers of changes in workforce skills over the next 3 to 5 years.
Likewise, more than half (52%) expect a modest or greater change in skills, so the upskilling effort is clearly a big step.
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Leaders say there is no time to improve AI skills
Two in five employers (40%) say time is the biggest barrier, after cost, when it comes to training workers for an AI-powered future; that is a larger proportion than the number of employees (33%) who have the same mindset.
However, investing in training time could be good in the long run, because more than three in four (77%) workers who adopt AI agree that they have saved at least an hour per day or more.
But perhaps it is a lack of clarity about who is responsible. More than half (56%) of job seekers believe they are responsible for developing their AI skills, and the same number of employers say the responsibility falls on senior managers.
“It is difficult to integrate [AI] effective when treated as an add-on to existing workloads,” wrote senior strategic advisor Matt Burney. “When deployment is applied to already overloaded teams, the impact is rarely an acceleration. “It’s friction.”
Looking ahead, it is clear that responsibilities need to be defined so that employers or employees can take ownership of upskilling, and then that protected time is set aside to enable this learning.
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