A growing number of scientists, engineers and tech workers have seen colleagues leave after AI changed their work…
- AI is impacting career progression opportunities and increasing workloads
- Long-term skills gaps could impact companies losing their STEM workers
- Senior workers are taking on more junior roles
While we're starting to accept that AI might not be here to replace human workers, we are increasingly seeing the technology changing roles. Now, 15% of UK STEM professionals have reported seeing colleagues leave because of how much AI has actually changed their role.
However the exact factors vary wildly, with reduced career progression opportunities (14%) and unsustainable workloads (12%) among the most common.
And that's all bad news for employers, because nearly half (45%) they their organization struggled to replace specialist employees who left over the past year.
Workers are leaving because AI is changing their job too much
Ultimately, the report by SThree concludes that STEM skills take multiple years to develop, and by losing access to some of the most...
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