Enterprise hits and misses - AI adoption sparks an employee well-being debate, as agentic use cases gain traction

Lead story - How can employers ensure AI does not wreck employee mental health?

Cath's latest two-parter hits on the anxious elephant in the room. Some of us hoped that AI would be about freeing us up from the admin grind, to do our best work - perhaps aided by a smart AI assistant.

But too often, AI comes off as a hamster wheel accelerator, where we KPI our way to extinction do the "AI first" thing to keep pace, while hoping our employers don't roll the dice on our expendability via the same tools that were supposed to make work better.

The biggest thing I took from this series? The situation is complicated, and so are the answers. For every disconcerting AI impact, there might be another we didn't anticipate. Some teams/companies/individuals may thrive; others will be left behind. As Cath put it in Is AI ...