Top managers in particular use generative AI in companies
Published: Tuesday, Oct 29th 2024, 12:20
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In companies, it is mainly top managers who use generative artificial intelligence. By contrast, middle managers and ordinary employees are much more reticent.
This is the result of a survey of 778 managers and employees from Germany, Austria and Switzerland conducted by consulting and IT service provider Adesso and published on Tuesday. 29 percent of top managers use generative AI such as ChatGPT and Co. several times a day. The figure is only 12 percent for middle managers and 11 percent for employees.
This different approach is certainly also due to the fact that many people are not sufficiently trained in generative AI, explained Adesso AI manager Tim Strohschneider: "If you don't know how to use the technology correctly, you can't exploit its potential."
It is the rank-and-file employees who have the highest hopes for artificial intelligence: 92 percent of employees expect it to make their work significantly easier, compared to 69 percent of top managers and 68 percent of middle managers.
Top managers save a lot of time
Although employees place the greatest hopes in the time benefits of generative AI, it is primarily top management that benefits from it: one in three managers say they save more than five hours of working time per week by using the technology.
Only 13 percent of middle managers and just 5 percent of employees reported such significant time savings, according to the report. Adesso concludes that companies need to invest more in AI training for employees.
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