Workers Are Excited About AI Agents — So Why Are Companies Screwing It Up?
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
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🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A new EY study shows workers are eager to embrace AI agents — 84% say they’re ready, and most expect agents to boost productivity and work-life balance. But companies are failing to match that enthusiasm with clear communication, effective training, and updated management approaches. NLW breaks down the data and explores what it really takes to build an AI-ready organization.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, it turns out that workers are actually kind of enthusiastic |
| 0:05.6 | about agents. |
| 0:06.9 | Unfortunately, companies are completely squandering that potential momentum. |
| 0:11.7 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions |
| 0:15.8 | in AI. |
| 0:26.1 | All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. |
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| 0:42.3 | and with that, let's get into it. For this weekend's long read slash big think episode, we have a new |
| 0:48.8 | study from E.Y. AI is so fast moving that I'm always interested to see the latest data about how people's |
| 0:56.7 | feelings about the technology are changing and evolving. And this new study from EY deals with |
| 1:02.0 | two themes that have been really pertinent across the scope of 2025. The first is, of course, |
| 1:07.8 | the rise of agent deployments, as we've seen from studies from |
| 1:11.1 | another consulting firm, KPMG, between Q1 of this year and Q3 of this year, agent deployment |
| 1:17.4 | nearly quadrupled from 11% back in the first quarter, all the way up to 42% last quarter. |
| 1:24.0 | Agents are very quickly moving out of the realm of the theoretical into the realm of |
| 1:27.9 | the real. At the same time, throughout this year, companies have been dealing with a pretty |
| 1:33.9 | serious communication overhang. Last December, Writer AI did a study where they surveyed |
| 1:39.7 | 800 employees and 800 executives and found just a wild gap between how those two different groups |
| 1:46.4 | thought about AI with regard to their companies. In a huge percentage of cases, executives were |
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