Have employees given up on trying to change the workplace? If that many people don’t bother to speak up, that’s a condemnation of workplace culture. We all say we want engaged employees, yet many of them are disengaged to the point of not bothering to try to make a difference.
Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay secure and deal with all of the hack attempts that may come their way, too.
It’s all too much. Most of your users aren’t going to put in that kind of effort, and a yearly reminder about data security isn’t going to help them keep up with the variety of risks that are out there. It might not be worth the money you spend on it.
You still have people performing tasks in exchange for a paycheck. They have no reason to feel like they matter. They’re ultimately replaceable. You remind them of that in a million little ways, then expect them to feel dedicated to the work your company does. That makes no sense.
Then, when the labor market pendulum swings back the other way and there aren’t enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that it turns out AI can’t do, these same workplaces will come out talking about how they’ve always supported worker mental health, they even have an EAP hotline for workers!
Could you not buy it for a second? If they aren’t doing it now, they don’t care. If they don’t care, you owe them nothing more than what your wages buy them. This is what young people in the workplace understand, and many of us who have been around are starting to see as well. We owe them nothing more than what they pay for. The rest of our lives belong to us.
This is the logical next step in the escalating conflict between website publishers and AI scrapers.
My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.