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Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health

ByMike McBride July 12, 2025July 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

This is not the world we were promised, but it’s the one we should have expected:

The majority (88%) of the most productive AI-enabled workers report feelings of burnout due to an increase in workload. And as a result, these workers are twice as likely to consider quitting their jobs, the report finds.

https://fortune.com/2025/07/09/ai-turbocharging-worker-productivity-wreaking-havoc-on-mental-health/

It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?

More work.

If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?

More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.

Somewhere, there is a good manager who knows this is not the way to retain talent, but there aren’t that many of them in the wild.

More on this topic here – Heavy AI use at work has a surprising relationship to burnout, new study finds.

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Linked: Mental health at work: the rise of work separation anxiety
ByMike McBride August 9, 2019August 8, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

Do you fear what will happen if you were to actually take a few days off and not pay attention to work? Do you feel anxiety about work building up on you, or work getting done without you? You may have work separation anxiety. It’s not a diagnosable disorder or anything, but it does create…

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Linked: When a Team Member Doesn’t Want to Come Back to the Office
ByMike McBride August 6, 2020August 5, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The article below advises managers at financial advisories to take a slow, thoughtful approach, but to also be prepared to manage some turnover if having everyone in the office is the goal. I think they are underselling that point. I think permanent work-from-home will be a differentiator in the war for top talent. I think…

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Linked: Remote Work Helped Meta Achieve Diversity Goals Years Ahead of Schedule
ByMike McBride August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about in the industries I have worked in has been this idea that remote and asynchronous work is something that makes it less likely that the only people we can hire are the ones who are both willing and able to dedicate their entire days to be in the office and also willing to jump in and do more work at any hour of the day and weekends. That eliminates a whole bunch of people from even applying, especially women with kids, neurodiverse and disabled candidates, and underrepresented groups without a large presence in the area where your office happens to be. (When you start a company in Silicon Valley, Seattle, Austin, or some other “hot” area, your candidate pool is limited to the people who live there now or are willing to move immediately.)

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Worth Reading – AI can change political opinions by flooding voters with real and fabricated facts
ByMike McBride December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

So what you’re telling me is that AI chatbots can spout so much bullshit, so fast, and so confidently that they are incredibly effective at changing people’s political beliefs?

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Be Careful Out There
ByMike McBride July 7, 2011July 7, 2011 Reading Time: 2 minutes

A couple of weeks ago, my wife sent me an email with a link to this PC-Mag article. ???FTC-Approved Company Will Save Dirt from Your Facebook Profile for 7 Years. My first reaction was that isn’t all that surprising, and people really do need to learn to think before they post anything to a social…

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Linked – Public speaking, TEDx, and well articulated points of view
ByMike McBride November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Now, before you start with “they work in IT so that they don’t have to do public speaking,” I am going to argue that even if you’ve never wanted to present to a large conference audience or be asked to present webinars, etc., you would do well to learn how to do it anyway. You will need to tell a compelling story about what you do at some point in your career. Whether it be to defend your budget, ask for headcount, or explain your role on the team, being able to present your ideas well will go a long way. But, it’s not something we train for with many of our technical employees.

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