What does it mean for culture when 'intelligence is on tap'?

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

First of two episodes going deep on how AI is going to impact work - and therefore workplace culture and dynamics.

This week is with Alexia Cambon from Microsoft. Alexia is Head of Research on Copilot & Future of Work. Last month her team released the Work Trend Index Annual Report. It’s one of the most important pieces of insight into how our jobs will change. Their previous reports have been interesting going deep into how people are experimenting with AI but this year’s is different. It articulates a version of work that most of us aren’t yet ready for.

P&G research: Having an AI assistant doubles a worker’s output, proving as effective as having a real teammate

Alexia mentioned that the research was performed by Karim R. Lakhani. The paper itself.

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0:00.0	This is Eat Sleep, Work Repeat. It's a podcast about workplace culture.
0:07.6	Hello, I'm Bruce Taisley.
0:09.0	Episode today follows broadly the trend of the last couple of episodes, really.
0:13.3	It's going in and it's exploring more about how AI is going to impact our jobs.
0:19.2	And in fact, the next episode after this is going to be the same.
0:22.9	So I guess it's sort of wrestling with the themes of how workplace culture is going to be
0:29.9	disrupted by this advancing layer of technology that's really starting to transform the
0:36.4	way we do our jobs. This week's episode
0:39.0	is with Alexia Kambam from Microsoft. Alexi is head of research on co-pilot and the future of work.
0:46.2	And last week, her team released the Work Trend Index Annual Report. It's one of the most
0:51.4	important pieces of insight really into how our jobs will change.
0:55.7	It's worth saying last year's report was very much a holding pattern. The previous year's
1:00.1	reports have been really interesting going into just the applications of technology.
1:04.4	The version in 2020, 3 looked at the notion that we had these work demons, the demon of the broken meeting, the demon of the blank page.
1:14.3	And it set about suggesting that AI had applications helping there.
1:19.3	But her report and her team's report this month has been of a completely different order of things.
1:27.4	It really just goes into what I think
1:30.4	there's a growing recognition of that work is going to be completely transformed. I was at a
1:35.9	conference this week actually, recording the episode that I'll put out next a workday conference.
1:41.4	What was really interesting to me was that I ran a session that we'll be using
1:46.2	as an episode. I ran a session, but the amount of people who came up to me afterwards and said,
1:51.8	our work is doing zero with AI. And it was astonishing really because it's just a reminder that we're in this zone right now where
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