Just a quarter of Irish workers report having money left over after paying all the bills at the end of the month as rising costs impact household incomes.<\/p>\n
A survey of 1,000 workers by PWC as part of its global workforce survey also found that two-thirds of Irish workers said that cost of living concerns impacted their work in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n
Globally, the survey found that 34% of workers had money left over after paying their bills.<\/p>\n
The survey also points to a widening AI skills gap. More than half of Irish workers used AI at work in the past 12 months, up from 43%, but still well behind the global average of 64%. Daily use of generative AI tools rose from 10% to 15%, compared with 22% globally, while daily use of AI agents doubled from a low base of 3% to 6%.<\/p>\n
Laoise Mullane, AI adoption lead at PwC Ireland, said regular AI users were reporting “higher levels of confidence, ambition and optimism”, but warned against “creating a divide between those who are forging ahead with AI and those who risk being left behind”.<\/p>\n
Among those who had used AI, 62% said it improved the quality of their work and 58% said it boosted their creativity, though both figures trailed global averages. More than a quarter (27%) expect AI to completely or significantly transform their roles within three years.<\/p>\n
Despite the pressures, 57% of Irish workers are very confident about their job security, with more citing economic volatility (45%) than AI (41%) as the biggest threat.<\/p>\n
They also show a high degree of readiness for change. Almost three-quarters feel ready to adapt to new ways of working, while 68% understand the skills they will need for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Workers also appear restless. Over a fifth (22%) said they were extremely or very likely to change employer in the next year, above the global rate of 19%, while 34% are likely to seek a pay rise and 28% a promotion.<\/p>\n
Almost three-quarters (73%) said they felt ready to adapt to new ways of working, but 29% said fatigue or burnout was limiting their productivity.<\/p>\n
Rebecca McCann, senior manager at PwC Ireland, said employers needed to give staff “the time, practical support and development opportunities to learn, experiment and participate in change”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a quarter of Irish workers report having money left over after paying all the bills at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,8531,80],"class_list":["post-639779","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-munster-business","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639779","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=639779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}