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Who Deserves This Promotion? Some Managers are Asking ChatGPT.

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by The Business Journals.

According to a Resume Builder survey of 1,342 managers, 6 in 10 managers said they rely on AI to make decisions about their direct reports. 78% of those surveyed use AI tools to help determine raises, and 77% said they use AI tools to determine promotions. 66% claim to use AI to help determine layoffs, and 64% said they use the technology to help determine whom they fire. 

Managers ultimately are leaders of people, not technology, and should have relationships with the people they oversee, said Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics.

“Managers who are relying on AI to assess, evaluate, rank, compensate and promote employees are allowing their own critical-thinking skills around these tasks to atrophy,” Skeet said.

 

Ann Skeet, senior director, leadership ethics, quoted by The Business Journals.

 

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