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🤖 What’s your AI persona?

🤨 3 out of 5 living paycheck to paycheck…

🩺 A message from the Surgeon General

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What’s Your AI Persona?

Slack’s new Workforce Lab research has identified what motivates workers to use AI and how different types of people feel about using it at work.

Through in-depth interviews and a survey of 5,000 workers, the research uncovered five distinct AI “personas.”

Here are the five personas and the key findings about each different type of employee:

1. The Maximalist

• 65% reveal their use of AI at work and actively encourage others to use it

• Their #1 motivation to use AI at work is to produce higher quality work

• Nearly half say the use of AI is actively encouraged at their company, regardless of having guidelines for use (or not)

2. The Underground

   • 55% use AI at least a couple of times a week

   • 74% don’t actively share about their use or encourage others to use AI

   • 43% say their company doesn’t encourage the use of AI at work

3. The Rebel

   • 66% never use AI at work

   • 58% believe AI is mostly a threat to society

   • 39% say it’s unfair if coworkers use AI to complete their tasks

4. The Superfan

   • 72% use AI less than once a month

   • 76% admire coworkers who apply AI to their work in creative ways

5. The Observer

   • 66% feel indifferent about AI in the workplace

   • One-third are interested in learning or further developing AI skills

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3 Out of 5 Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck

PNC Bank just released their second annual Financial Wellness in the Workplace Report, and the results have some economists concerned. 1,000+ workers and 500+ employers were surveyed for the report.

Here are all the notable findings:

• 78% of U.S. employers believed their workers were financially stressed compared to 71% in 2023. Seems like an easy fix… Maybe pay them more? Access to financial planning benefits doubled from 14% to 28% in the past year so that’s something at least.

• Personal finance stress was highest with Gen Z (76%), followed by Millennials (72%) and Gen X (72%), then Boomers (59%).

• Gen Z's top priority is strengthening their credit rating, while Millennials, Gen X and Boomers all prioritize saving for retirement.

• The likelihood of staying with an employer that offers more financial wellness benefits was highest among Gen Z (92%), followed by Millennials (85%), Gen X (72%) and Boomers (64%).

• 54% of respondents said student debt is their most challenging debt to tackle. 3 in 10 workers with student debt said they’re at a standstill and basically just paying interest and not making any progress toward paying it off.

• 3 in 5 U.S. workers surveyed say they are living paycheck to paycheck. This sentiment is highest among Gen Z and Millennials.

• 31% of workers said they would like early access to their paycheck.

• Men reported an average financial wellness score of 53 out of 100 and women reported a score of 46.

WORKPLACE

A Message From the Surgeon General

Leave it to the government to insert themselves into private affairs where no one asked for them. In this case, however, the surgeon general’s message to employers has universal support.

Last week, U.S. Surgeon General DR. Vivek Murthy published an advisory calling on organizations to offer paid leave, managerial training, and mental healthcare access to parents in the workforce.

The surgeon general’s advisory cited data from the American Psychological Association showing that parents are more likely than non-parents to report high stress in the workplace.

In 2023, 33% of parents reported feeling “highly stressed or anxious” at work compared to only 20% of employees without kids.

In the 36-page advisory released on the health and human services website, Dr. Murthy outlines how this trend affects individual contributors, companies, and the labor force as a whole. In 2022, he released a similar advisory urging companies to increase paid leave and flexible work schedules for all employees, but with an emphasis on parents.

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