How to Respond to an Employee Who Wants to Use AI

How to Respond to an Employee Who Wants to Use AI

In recent years, AI has made significant advancements, and now many employees, as indicated by recent surveys, expect companies to adopt these technologies to improve work efficiency. Specifically, 73% of people believe that their company should use AI more. Here’s how to address the situation.

Why Do Employees Want to Use AI?

Before responding to an employee’s request, it’s essential to understand the motivations behind this request. Most employees who approach their managers to use tools like ChatGPT or other AI platforms do so with the goal of saving time and improving efficiency.

Repetitive, low-value tasks like writing formal emails, creating reports, or drafting job descriptions take up time that could be used for more strategic activities. With AI, an email that would typically take 10 minutes can be completed in just 2 minutes, and a job description that would normally take an hour can be written in 10 minutes. In this way, AI can automate repetitive tasks and allow employees to focus on higher-value tasks.

AI as Support, Not a Replacement

A key point to understand is that many employees don’t see AI as a replacement for human work, but rather as a support that enhances efficiency. For instance, they might take a text generated by AI, modify it, expand it, and make it more “human,” thus saving time without compromising the quality of the work.