Performance reviews | 'No longer optional' - is it OK for Microsoft to make employee AI usage mandatory?

How often do you use artificial intelligence?

Are you an AI super-user, using ChatGPT to turn the dwindling groceries at the back of the refrigerator into gourmet recipes and Copilot to whittle down your cluttered email inbox into a streamlined to-do list?

Actually, it’s more likely you’re a part of the majority who are not yet using AI at work. That could be because you’re worried about the impact of the technology on your job security, your cognitive ability, or planet Earth; because you lack the skills to get started; or even because you’re part of the 17% of Americans who haven’t even heard of AI usage in the workplace (yes, really).

So, what if your business made it company policy that all staff must use AI at work, and used adherence to that policy as a measure for determining career progression?