{"id":49863,"date":"2025-09-29T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49863\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T10:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:10:11","slug":"what-employees-really-use-ai-for-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/49863\/","title":{"rendered":"What employees really use AI for at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We find that the work activities associated with ChatGPT usage are highly similar across very different kinds of occupations,&#8221; the report read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Overall, we find that information-seeking and decision support are the most common ChatGPT use cases in most jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AI as &#8216;co-workers&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the report also answers the question of whether ChatGPT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/asia\/specialisation\/recruitment\/employers-now-demanding-chatgpt-skills-from-workers\/449150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">can really improve productivity<\/a> in workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We argue that ChatGPT likely improves worker output by providing decision support, which is especially important in knowledge-intensive jobs where better decision-making increases productivity,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings are most consistent with Ide and Talamas (2025), who develop a model where AI agents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/asia\/news\/general\/new-kind-of-team-member-employees-turning-to-ai-over-colleagues\/533730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">can serve either as co-workers<\/a> that produce output or as co-pilots that give advice and improve the productivity of human problem-solving.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We find that the work activities associated with ChatGPT usage are highly similar across very different kinds of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10599,43318,1144,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-49863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-ai-adoption","9":"tag-ai-use","10":"tag-human-resources","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}