Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers To Use AI. They're Enforcing It. (msn.com)
(Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:30PM (msmash)
from the use-it-or-else dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/25/1648247/tech-firms-arent-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-theyre-enforcing-it
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge
Tech companies ranging from 300-person startups to giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Salesforce have moved beyond encouraging employees to use AI tools and are [1]now actively tracking adoption and, in several cases, tying it to performance reviews. Google is factoring AI use into some software engineer reviews for the first time this year, and Meta's new performance review system will do the same -- it can track how many lines of code an engineer wrote with AI assistance.
Amazon Web Services managers have dashboards showing individual engineer AI-tool usage and consider adoption when evaluating promotions. About 42% of tech-industry workers said their direct manager expects AI use in daily work as of last October, up from 32% eight months earlier, according to AI consulting firm Section. At software maker Autodesk, CEO Andrew Anagnost acknowledged that some employees had been using initially blocked coding tools like Cursor stealthily -- and warned that AI holdouts "probably won't survive long term."
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge
Amazon Web Services managers have dashboards showing individual engineer AI-tool usage and consider adoption when evaluating promotions. About 42% of tech-industry workers said their direct manager expects AI use in daily work as of last October, up from 32% eight months earlier, according to AI consulting firm Section. At software maker Autodesk, CEO Andrew Anagnost acknowledged that some employees had been using initially blocked coding tools like Cursor stealthily -- and warned that AI holdouts "probably won't survive long term."
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge
So glad!!!! (Score:2)
by dskoll ( 99328 )
for (i=0; i<=2000; i++) { printf("I am SO GLAD I am retired!\n"); }
Micro-management (Score:2)
by unixisc ( 2429386 )
I thought that micro-managing employees is a bad idea. While I can understand departments or teams having common workflow disciplines, forcing individual employees to use particular tools (which is what AI really is, or at least should be) is nothing short of micro-managing them. At which point, their managers are not doing their own work, which does presumably exist, aside from micro-managing employees reporting to them
If your boss is forcing you to use AI (Score:2)
Then you are training your replacement. Now maybe that'll work out and maybe it won't but that's what they're trying to do.
Microsoft Recall training data for Copilot. (Score:2)
I completely agree.
Long time ago I mentioned that the Microsoft Recall feature that takes a screenshots of everything that you do on your computer is just training data for their Copilot PI.
Now with organizations and the executives forcing PI adoption and mandating it as part of performance reviews, they generally want everybody to train their PI replacements so they can start the next batch waves of layoffs and the next economic crisis bigger than anything else that we've seen in the past.