What is ‘silent shooting’? All about the ‘quiet stop’ blow attributed to AI

While employees worry that this could be possible lose their jobs to AI Some experts claim that this is already happening in the future.

Instead of have their employees ‘quietly stop’ Employers are “silently firing,” or making roles so difficult that employees quit and are then replaced by artificial intelligence.

George Kailas, the CEO of Prospero.Ai and Fast Company Contributorclaims this is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week, despite the majority of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with its return-to-office policy.

As a result 73% of employees were considering quittinga study showed.

Kailas claims that despite some data proving that remote work increases productivity, companies like Amazon are “silently firing employees” by enforcing such policies, “because the best way to reduce workforce while saving on severance pay would to abolish remote working,” he wrote. .

“What makes this even more alarming is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of the AI ​​adoption curve yet,” Kailas added.

While Elon Musk expects it a complete overhaul of the workforce As a result of AI, experts are not so convinced.

Economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu emphasizes that only 5% of jobs are capable of this be replaced or assisted by AI within the next 10 years.

‘A lot of money is being lost’ he previously told Bloomberg. “You won’t get an economic revolution from those 5%.”

He argued that AI is not yet reliable to complete the tasks humans perform and predicted that the technology will soon not be advanced enough.

“You need very reliable information or the ability of these models to faithfully perform certain steps that employees previously did,” Acemoglu continued.

“They can do that in a few places with some human oversight … but in most places they can’t.”

Concerns about an AI jobs revolution come as Generation Z fuels a new workplace trend called the “Great Detachment.” Workplace disengagement, a cousin of “quietly quitting” and “quietly taking a vacation,” refers to a decline in employee engagement due to dissatisfied employees.

Poll data from Gallup found a 5% decline in Gen Z and young millennials engagement, and Richard Wahlquist, CEO of the American Staffing Association told Business Insider that an estimated three in ten employees are not actively involved at work.

Withdrawal, according to Gallupalso leads to a financial blow.

It costs the world about $8.8 trillion in productivity, the organization said.