{"id":620161,"date":"2026-09-10T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620161\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T08:12:12","slug":"half-of-workers-reconsidering-careers-over-ai-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/620161\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of workers reconsidering careers over AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost half of workers say AI is making them reconsider their career path, according to new research from Microsoft.<\/p>\n

That is up from 34% in 2025.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Ireland’s 2026 Work Trend Index shows that almost half of workers changed employer in the last year, up from 38% in 2025 and 19% in 2023.<\/p>\n

The research found that 63% of respondents use AI tools at work, up from 56% last year.<\/p>\n

Nine in 10 workers said AI has improved the quality of their work, while more than three quarters view AI as a major economic opportunity for Ireland.<\/p>\n

According to the survey, 40% said they have received enough AI training or guidance, and less than half said their employer provides the tools and resources they need.<\/p>\n

“Ireland’s workforce is adapting quickly to a changing world of work,” said General Manager at Microsoft Ireland Catherine Doyle.<\/p>\n

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\nCatherine Doyle said people are thinking about the skills that they need<\/p>\n

“People are thinking differently about the skills they need, the career paths they want and the opportunities they expect from their employers.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, there is strong recognition of AI’s potential, both for individual careers and for Ireland’s future competitiveness,” Ms Doyle said.<\/p>\n

The Microsoft Ireland Work Trend Index is based on a nationally representative survey of 1,000 workers in Ireland, conducted by 3GEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost half of workers say AI is making them reconsider their career path, according to new research from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-620161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}