Tech.co’s 2025 Impact of Technology Report on the Workplace has revealed that AI revolutionizes work-life for business leaders. 61% of them say it’s improved their balance.
AI and work-life balance
AI-automated Tasks = More Time & Greater Productivity
AI automating tasks can free up time for senior leaders of businesses to focus on more complex and strategic tasks.
This improved efficiency could also result in increased productivity and return on investment.
AI facilitates a four-day work week
Tech.co’s survey also revealed that 93% businesses who use AI are willing to work a four-day week compared to only 44% businesses who don’t.
The findings of last year’s study showed that 72% business leaders who use AI extensively report high organizational productivity.
AI: How Business Leaders Use It
Tech.co conducted a survey of 1,036 business leaders in order to determine the most common uses for AI.
Writing (such as reports, emails, and presentations): 43%
Data Analysis – 37%
Chatbots and customer support – 33%
Design tasks (i.e. Design tasks (i.e.
The Tech.co Report highlights an impressive 17% increase in the adoption of AI to write tasks, compared with last year.
ChatGPT is used by business leaders as the most popular AI tool
ChatGPT will be used by 73% of AI-using leaders in business to complete tasks in 2024.
Microsoft, however, has seen significant improvements. 39% more senior executives are using it than the year before. It could be because it is integrated into other Microsoft products, such as the office suite.
Google’s Gemini bot is last. The AI tool, despite its rebranding, has lost (-13%) a significant portion of its market share with US business leaders.
Jack Turner, editor of Tech.co comments:
Tech.co’s latest research shows that despite the fear of AI taking away jobs, the technology actually helps many of us to complete time-consuming tasks like writing and data analysis. This reduces the workload of workers and increases productivity.
AI may be the next logical step in paving the way for a 4-day work week, just as Henry Ford was able to revolutionize mass-production methods with the assembly line and introduce the 5-day work week.
“We already know that AI-enabled companies are more likely than non-AI-enabled ones to consider reducing the workweek.”
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