A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year
A UK government trial with 20K+ civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year
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Landmark government trial shows AI could save civil servants nearly 2 weeks a year
- Over 20,000 civil servants were given the latest AI tech for 3 months, using it to draft documents, summarise meetings and more
- from policy officials using it to cut through jargon and streamline consultations, to Work Coaches speeding up support for job seekers – officials said the tech boosted their ability to deliver the Plan for Change
- comes as expansive research shows half of office work can be helped by AI, as government continues push to save £45 billion by creating a lean, modern state using tech
26mins seems within the margin of error. You could get at least an extra 26 mins of productivity out of someone in plenty of different ways.
Ask everyone who the annoying co-worker is; you know the one that yaps to you about some inane bullshit that you don't care about for up to an hour everyday?
Fire "that guy" en masse and you would see massive gains.
Out of being monitored.
A carrot perhaps... Or a very big stick.
How so? Can you give an example that is applicable here?
Shorten every meeting by 15 minutes and call as few as possible with as few people as possible. Get rid of TPS reports or whatever bullshit forms the English and Welsh government(s) require.
I mean, fuck, reducing commute times would save people time. Spend the Copilot money on public infrastructure and you’ll increase productivity.
A lot of the tasks ai is doing are process issues. If the worker needs ai to filter a report for to much jargon people need to write more concise reports. There now we've saved time for the readers and the writer. For the replying to emails with "personalised" job advice. Thats gross, I dont think its ethical for government workers to give ai responses to people who are desperately seeking employment.
All kinds of things can motivate workers to care more about their job and thus work harder. Stuff like saying if you finish your work you can go home early (this would net me 4 hours of productivity each day). Things like performance based compensation. Shorter work weeks. Less commute time. Better work environment. Im sure many people could find an extra 26mins in there day if they wanted to.
Also keep in mind this is a self reported study. It feels productive when ai writes you an email but sometimes you fluff around with ai and you could have just written it 20s.
Forced overtime comes to an easier, cheaper mind.
But how better done depends on the field. Me, having a faster computer reduces compile time. So NOT having AI overhead on my machine is more important.
People could get tons of flows improved by not abusing Excell as a database.