Working hours: This calculator shows how much you'll have to work in the future
Shouldn't AI save working time? Initial studies show that in some cases the opposite is the case. Why that is - and how much more or less you might work soon.
The common narratives about artificial intelligence go like this: "AI can already do many things better than we humans." "AI will make entire jobs redundant." "AI will create completely new jobs." "AI makes us more efficient and will save us working hours." However, in most cases, the reality is different. Instead of feeling less burdened, many employees feel more pressure due to AI.
Wei Jiang, a business professor at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, was surprised by this contradiction - between the great productivity promises of AI on the one hand and her own experienced reality on the other. Together with researchers from several other universities, Jiang therefore investigated the extent to which AI really changes the world of work - and above all the workload of employees.
The researchers were able to show using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) that in the USA, working hours on average increase instead of decrease. Based on these research results and with the help of data from German working time statistics, the Handelsblatt has created a calculator that uses various criteria to predict your own working time for 2027.
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