#employee-productivity

#employee-productivity

Salesforce says it's at the vanguard of the AI revolution and has even toyed with renaming itself Agentforce in honor of its bet on AI agents. The company is rapidly adopting AI internally as well, and a survey obtained by Business Insider reveals how that's actually playing out behind the scenes. The results - which were broadly positive - show that most employees feel AI is increasing their productivity, although fewer say it's lightening their workloads.

For today's professionals, moving between home offices, corporate campuses, client sites, and on-the-go locations is the norm. What shouldn't be the norm is losing valuable time to wrestling with logins, cables, and equipment just to get started. In this new reality, technology isn't just a tool; it's a foundation for workplace culture. A well-designed, intuitive user experience sends a clear signal to employees: we value your time, your work, and your well-being.

Leading employers and workplace wellbeing experts have urged the government not to sideline employee health and productivity reforms, warning that rising unemployment and growing fiscal pressures make action more urgent than ever. At a meeting of the Policy Liaison Group on Workplace Wellbeing on 21 November - chaired by Gethin Nadin and led by renowned psychologist Professor Sir Cary Cooper - participants agreed that the recommendations in Sir Charlie Mayfield's recent Keep Britain Working review must be rapidly converted into policy and practice.

For their study, researchers surveyed over 1200 senior executives and non-executive employees about their workplace arrangements. While 53 percent of employees reported feeling less satisfied and less productive when they had to work through ambient noise, only 35 percent of executives felt the same way. The disconnect between the perceptions of management and the people they employ was evident in other areas as well.

Organizations are scrambling to keep up with employees using AI tools like ChatGPT, text generators, and automation platforms to help them at work. The phenomenon is known as Bring Your Own AI. And while workers are hitting performance goals faster, they're also exposing companies to unprecedented legal and security risks.

"In a recent study, Dr. Juliet Schor studied thousands of workers in the U.S., the U.K., Brazil, Germany and other countries who were put on a 4-day-a-week pilot program for one year (there was no reduction in salary)."

Our AI assistant is designed to empower employees by reducing the time spent on repetitive tasks. From drafting reports to analyzing large datasets, the tool is meant to act as a force multiplier.

"This is about someone asking for an action that needs to be done," says Rajavel, referring to what most employees are seeking with their questions. "It has to complete the task. It cannot just guide the task."

"Three quarters (75%) of employees said that the furniture, layout, and flexibility of their office space have a significant impact on their well-being and performance."

A significant 36% of employees have chosen to work from home primarily to escape the excessive noise in their offices, highlighting a crucial workplace challenge.