The survey is not only revealing the “intelligence gap”, but also reveals the emerging phenomenon of “male shame” in the workplace-especially in C-SUITE

The results come from WalkmeAnd Bait The company, which polled more than 1,000 American workers in the 2025 edition of them.Amnesty International at the workplaceA survey. Nearly half of the employees (48.8 %) admit that their use of Amnesty International at work to avoid judgment, indicating that something like “shame from artificial intelligence” is a real phenomenon in the workplace. This discomfort is especially pronounced at the top, with 53.4 % of the leaders C-Suite who admit that they hide their returns-however, they do not enjoy it. The executive level, with highlighting how the most powerful employees remain uncomfortable.

Gen Z: Equightened, but not supported

General Z’s relationship with artificial intelligence appears to be enthusiastic and anxious. Complete 62.6 % of the work using artificial intelligence but pretended to be all their own effort – the highest rate between any generation.

More than half (55.4 %) have pretended to understand artificial intelligence in meetings. Their behavior depends on the context: 28.4 % exaggerate the use of artificial intelligence for some, while 13.5 % reduces others. Interestingly, this can depend on those who talk to him. But only 6.8 % report large -scale AI exercises, and 13.5 % at all. This is the slightest age group. Nevertheless, 89.2 % of artificial intelligence is used at work – as many tools are used (89.2 %) that have not been provided or punishment by the employer. I mentioned only 7.5 % received intense training with artificial intelligence tools. This is a remarkable small progress from 2024, when the scanner of Workme found that 7.0 % was reported to be reported by widespread training – only 0.5 %.

Sharon Bernstein, chief human resource employee at Walkme, said, said Walkme, luck In an interview that “companies are not educated enough about this entire,” saying that they do not facilitate the use of artificial intelligence tools. They “do not train their employees enough today, or direct … even if you are an amazing professional manager and allows you to buy some different tools for Amnesty International, how long they have been adopted?

The group of artificial intelligence and the paradox of productivity

The access to artificial intelligence and guidance training increases with the rank and size of the company. Only 3.7 % of novice employees receive great exercises compared to 17.1 % of CEO at the C. C. Powerful and young employees are not supported – a gap that risk strengthening the “Amnesty International Category” where the most common users are left to move alone.

AI changes the work, and the survey suggests not always for the better. Most employees (80 %) of artificial intelligence say they have improved their productivity, but 59 % admit to spending more time in wrestling with artificial intelligence tools than if they had worked themselves. Gen Z again leads the struggle, saying 65.3 % of artificial intelligence slows them (the highest amount of any group), and 68 % of pressure on producing more work because of this. Almost one of every three are very concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on their functions, saying they are very concerned about their impact on their functions. Confidence is mixed: Only 45 % of Gen Z says they are “very confident” using artificial intelligence – less than the millennial generation (56.3 %) and tied to the general x (43.2 %).

How to suit this image

These gaps, about the willingness of artificial intelligence and different levels of shame from artificial intelligence, are proportional to a picture of the implementation of trap artificial intelligence, if not messy, in the workplace, from the level of entry to C-SUITE. For example, more than half of the professionals states that he was overwhelmed by artificial intelligence training initiatives, saying it seems to be a “second job” – longer and hours of hours, and often with a tangible benefit for the workflow. Although it is a speculation not to be linked to a lack of training appropriate to study the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which shows an amazing 95 % impressive failure for artificial intelligence pilots in large companies, it is clear that there is a problem that moves from the drawing panel to the factory hall. Moreover, this separation between the institutional noise and the actual value of work raises the investor’s concerns about the potential artificial intelligence bubble.

Finally, it fits the survey The “artificial intelligence shade” direction, Where workers use an overwhelming majority of these tools, but companies are backward in the official adoption of artificial intelligence tools. Many colleges prohibit artificial intelligence tools The “fraud” crisis. From the market, where investors from the bubble fear to the level of entry, where workers try to match their use of shadows of artificial intelligence with their actual performance, to C-SUITE, where leaders are under pressure to revolutionize their companies and obtain results with this new technology, there is a emerging gap between theory and reality.

Bernstein said that from her point of view as a leader of human resources, “First of all, you want not to fear that they admit that they are using it, right?” The companies urged to be transparent on how they really plan to use artificial intelligence to decorate the fear of artificial intelligence tools used to replace workers, on the one hand, and even facilities using it, on the other hand. “I don’t really think that we can literally replace employees, perhaps in very specific positions, but in general, I think companies are now in a stage need to educate their team members on this topic,” she added.

The increased anxiety, the fall is prepared

Anxiety about the effect of artificial intelligence on jobs condenses. 44.8 % of workers feel anxious, and the rate of “extreme anxiety” has increased since last year. Gen Z feels more severely: 62.2 % say they are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence, with 28.4 % “very anxious” – the highest rate across the age groups. Tension levels rise to 27 % of Gen Z, the highest of any generation. However, hope continues: 89.6 % want to learn more about artificial intelligence, and 86 % believe that the efficiency of artificial intelligence is crucial to career success.

The results indicate an urgent need for employers to fill the artificial intelligence gap, which provides clear guidelines, comprehensive training and transparent policies. Those who are on the front edge to adopt artificial intelligence – whether in the meeting room or between Gen Z – do not need support, not secrecy. With the spread of tools and high expectations, institutions risk erosion of trust, productivity and emotional luxury unless this problem is addressed directly.

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