Teachers are getting more comfortable using AI – but it isn't helping lower their workload
- 80% of teachers use AI, but only 35% work fewer hours and 55% work the same
- It's freeing up time that's then being spent on other work
- Technology alone might not be enough to tackle excessive workloads
New YouGov data has revealed around four in five teachers now use artificial intelligence at work, marking around a 2x increase over the past year.
However, despite a clear appetite for the productivity-boosting tech, teachers aren't actually saving any meaningful time – only one in three (35%) said they were actually working fewer hours as a result of adopting AI, with more than half (55%) noting they were working the same amount of time.
But crucially, that's not to say that artificial intelligence isn't saving workers time where it's being applied. They're just spending the time that they've already saved taking on other workloads, implying that teachers have long been overstretched.
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