Silent shooting is the new trend in the workplace. (Representative picture)

The corporate sector has witnessed numerous trends in the workplace, including high resignation, quiet resignation, moonlighting and anger enforcement. However, all this is expected to be replaced by “silent dismissal”, a mode that has already begun to dominate the labor industry. As workers worry that they could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) in the future, some experts have argued that this is already happening. Employers are “silently firing” or making roles so difficult that workers quit and are subsequently replaced by AI, New York Post reported.

That’s why Amazon forces employees to come to the office five days a week, despite the majority of the workforce expressing dissatisfaction with the return-to-the-office policy, argues George Kailas, CEO of Prospero.Ai and Fast Company contributor. As a result, 73 percent of workers considered quitting, a survey found, according to Post.

According to Mr. Kailas, despite data showing that remote work increases productivity, companies like Amazon are “silently laying off workers” by implementing such policies, “because the best way to reduce retention while saving on severance would be the elimination of remote work,” he. he wrote.

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

Meanwhile, according to economist and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, only 5% of jobs can be replaced or assisted by AI in the next 10 years. “A lot of money will be wasted,” he previously said Bloomberg. “You’re not going to get an economic revolution out of that 5%.”

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Mr. Acemoglu 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 anytime soon. “You need highly reliable information or the ability of these models to faithfully implement certain steps that workers used to do,” Mr. Acemoglu continued.

“I can do that in a few places with some human oversight … but in most places I can’t,” he said.

In particular, concerns about AI taking over jobs come as GenZ is fueling another workplace trend called “The Great Detachment.” This refers to a decrease in employee engagement due to dissatisfaction among workers.

Polling data from Gallup found a 5% drop in engagement among Gen Z and millennials, and American Personnel Association CEO Richard Wahlquist told Business Insider that an estimated three in 10 employees are not actively engaged. at work.