How Workday Forced Its Workers to Embrace Their Own Obsolescence via it’s “Everyday AI”

The company's emphasis on "responsible AI" serves another purpose and that is it makes employees feel complicit in their own monitoring
Workday, a cloud software provider, aimed to integrate AI into its operations. However, internal research revealed challenges to employee adoption of artificial intelligence. Ashley Goldsmith sounds genuinely excited when she talks about Workday's AI success story. The company's chief people officer rattles off impressive statistics: 79% employee adoption, 37% increase in AI usage, glowing testimonials from "Workmates" across the organization. It's the kind of corporate transformation narrative that gets featured in Harvard Business Review case studies. But strip away the corporate speak, and Workday's "Everyday AI" initiative tells a more unsettling story, one that every knowledge worker should pay attention to. Because what Workday has really accomplished isn't just getting employe
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Upasana Banerjee
Upasana is a Content Strategist with AIM Research. Prior to her role at AIM, she worked as a journalist and social media editor, and holds a strong interest for global politics and international relations. Reach out to her at: upasana.banerjee@analyticsindiamag.com
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