UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds
A Deloitte survey found 17% of workers pay for GenAI tools themselves, and 31% use them without employer knowledge.
- On Wednesday, Deloitte research revealed one in six workers in Britain pays for AI tools, collectively spending nearly £1 billion annually of their own money.
- The inaugural GenAI Workforce Survey polled 25,000 workers via Ipsos, finding two-thirds have tried tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot, with nearly a quarter using them daily.
- With 31% of employees using GenAI without employer knowledge—shadow AI—Hayley McKelvey, Deloitte UK's chief AI officer, said, "UK workers are showing they don't want to wait for permission to use GenAI."
- Popular AI uses include searching for information, drafting emails, and creating summaries, saving workers an average of 70 minutes weekly; Deloitte partner Paul Lee noted GenAI has become part of everyday working life.
- Organizations will gain the greatest advantage from GenAI by moving beyond simply providing access to tools, focusing instead on helping employees use them with "appropriate guardrails and purpose.
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UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds
One is six workers in Britain is paying for an AI tool to help them do their job, at a total cost of nearly £1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year of their own money, according to research published by Deloitte on Wednesday.
UK workers spend nearly £1 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte
One is six workers in Britain is paying for an AI tool to help them do their job, at a total cost of nearly £1 billion ($1.4 billion) a year of their own money, according to research published by Deloitte on Wednesday. The inaugural GenAI Workforce Survey found that two thirds of workers had tried […]
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£1bn of own money spent on GenAI for work
British workers are spending close to £1 billion a year from their own pockets on generative AI (GenAI) tools they use for work, according to major new research from Deloitte UK. The findings come from Deloitte UK’s inaugural GenAI Workforce Survey, the largest study of workplace GenAI use conducted in a single country. Based on […]
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