83% Indians would delegate as much work as possible to AI: Microsoft report

More than three fourth of people in India surveyed are willing to delegate as much work as possible to Artificial Intelligence (AI), a Microsoft report said on Thursday.

According to Microsoft Work Trend Index 2023 report, 90 per cent of Indian leaders believe that the employees they hire would need new skills to be prepared for the growth of AI.

The research based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, including about 1,000 from India found that 74 per cent of Indian workers say that they're worried AI would replace their jobs.

"Research shows 83 per cent of Indian employees are willing to delegate as much work as possible to AI to reduce their workload" the report said.

More than three in four Indian leaders (84 per cent) said that they are concerned about lack of innovation.

"The primary culprit disrupting productivity is inefficient meetings, as reported by 46 per cent of Indian workers who feel that their absence in half or more of their meetings would go unnoticed by colleagues" it added.

According to the report, every employee and not just AI experts, would need new core competencies such as prompt engineering in their day-to-day work.

"90 per cent of Indian leaders say employees they hire will need new skills to be prepared for the growth of AI. 78 per cent of Indian workers say they don't currently have the right capabilities to get their work done" the report said.

According to Bhaskar Basu, Microsoft India Country Head, Modern Work, the nature of work evolves and AI promises to be the biggest transformation to work.

"The next generation of AI will unlock a new wave of productivity growth, removing the drudgery from our jobs and freeing us to rediscover the joy of creation. The opportunity and responsibility for every organisation and leader is to get AI right while also testing and experimenting with new ways of working to build a brighter future of work for everyone," said Basu.