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If 2025 was all about laying the groundwork for AI integration across the enterprise, next year is going to bring a critical next step for HR: reducing widespread employee fear about AI in order to drive adoption.
Data from Pew Research Center finds that more than half of U.S. workers worry about the impact of AI in the workplace. Despite forecasts that AI will, in the long run, create new jobs, employees aren’t optimistic: Only 6% actually envision AI opening up job opportunities for them.
Persistent employee fear of AI can drag down adoption, collaboration and dent the efficiency gains promised by the AI hype.
“AI is on the rise, along with anxiety across the workforce,” Donna Morris, chief people officer at Walmart and 2025 HR Executive of the Year recently told HR Executive. “I think it really has people extremely anxious.”
In the coming year, Morris says, it is imperative that HR get out ahead of that fear, or risk derailing planned AI transformations.
“It is super important to be front and center and take it back to transparency and communication,” she says.
Education as the catalyst to reduce employee fear of AI Donna Morris, Walmart
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