What is “silent shooting”? All about the “silent departure” that AI is blamed for

As workers fear they may lose their jobs in the future due to AI, some experts say this is already happening.

Instead of allowing their employees to “quietly quit,” employers are “quietly firing,” or making jobs so difficult that workers quit and are then replaced by artificial intelligence.

George Kailas, CEO of Prospero.Ai and a Fast Company employee, claims that this is why Amazon is forcing employees to come into the office five days a week, despite the fact that most employees have expressed dissatisfaction with the return to office policy.

As a result, one study found that 73% of workers were considering quitting.

Kailas argues that despite some data showing remote work improves productivity, companies like Amazon are “quietly laying off workers” with such policies “because the best way to reduce retention and save on severance pay is to refuse remote work,” he wrote. .

“What makes this even more alarming is that we haven’t even scratched the surface of the AI ​​adoption curve,” Kailas added.

Although Elon Musk expects a complete renewal of the workforce as a result of the introduction of AI, experts are not so sure.

Economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu insists that only 5% of jobs could be replaced or improved by AI over the next 10 years.

“A lot of money will be wasted,” he previously told Bloomberg. “This 5% will not make an economic revolution.”

He argued that artificial intelligence is not yet reliable enough to perform tasks that humans do, and predicted that the technology will not be advanced enough in the near future.

“You need highly reliable information or the ability of these models to accurately perform certain steps that workers used to perform,” Acemoglu continued.

“In some places they can do that with some human supervision… but in most places they can’t.”

Concern about the AI ​​revolution in the workplace comes as Gen Z fuels another workplace trend dubbed the “Great Disengagement.” A cousin of the “quiet layoff” and “quiet leave,” workplace disengagement refers to decreased employee engagement due to employee dissatisfaction.

Gallup polling data showed a 5% decline in engagement among Gen Z and younger millennials, and American Personnel Association CEO Richard Wahlquist told Business Insider that roughly three in 10 employees overall are not highly engaged at work.

Disengagement also takes a financial hit, according to Gallup.

According to the organization, this costs the world approximately $8.8 trillion.