Alarming New Data: 75% of Workers Say AI Is Hurting Productivity. Here's Why and What to Do About It. Four simple future-orientated solutions for leveraging AI to its full capacity without experiencing burnout.

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Alarming New Data: 75% of Workers Say AI Is Hurting Productivity. Here's Why and What to Do About It.
Four simple future-orientated solutions for leveraging AI to its full capacity without experiencing burnout.
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Key Takeaways

  • Three in 4 workers say AI reduced productivity and increased workloads.
  • AI is fueling burnout, not reducing it.
  • Entrepreneurs need to take a different approach to understand the unspoken causes and solutions.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Three in 4 workers say AI reduced productivity and increased workloads. That's according to a recent survey from the freelancing platform UpWork. But what the reporting on this is not sharing is why.

In my reporting and research, I have found that AI is fueling burnout, not reducing it. To turn the tide, workers and entrepreneurs need to take a different approach to understand the unspoken causes and solutions.

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In the above video, I dive deep into the productivity paradox and provide four simple future-orientated solutions for leveraging AI to its full capacity, while navigating the challenges.

Download my free 'AI Success Kit' here (limited time only). And you'll also get a free chapter from my new book, The Wolf Is At the Door - How to Survive and Thrive in an AI-Driven World.

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