Workplace Wellbeing: Embracing AI's work-enhancing capabilities to help us work smarter

Rather than worry about AI, experts suggest embracing its work-enhancing capabilities, which can free employees to focus on more creative tasks

Maryrose Lyons, founder of the AI Institute: "Almost all businesses, from the smallest start-ups to the largest organisations, are using AI-driven technology now."

There's a new sense of anxiety in the workplace. It’s called FOBO, the fear of becoming obsolete, it’s the worry that artificial intelligence (AI) and new technologies will eventually make us all redundant.

A 2024 survey of 14,000 workers in 14 countries found that half believed their skills would no longer be required in five years. Another study last year reported 46% of employees in the US feared machines would perform their jobs within the next five years, with another 29% expecting to be superseded even sooner.