New IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities - PR Newswire

A new study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, published via PR Newswire under the headline 'New IBM CHRO Study: AI Puts Critical Thinking at the Center of Workforce Priorities,' surveyed 1,500 chief human resources officers and 8,800 employees globally. The study found that 60% of employees worry that AI is eroding their skills.

According to the release, critical thinking was the skill employees cited most often as declining. Among the CHROs surveyed, 57% identified critical thinking as one of the workforce's most important capabilities, and 48% identified human judgment. The release presents the results as evidence that critical thinking is central to current workforce priorities.

The release does not indicate which other capabilities CHROs ranked, nor does it break the results down by country, industry, or job function. It also does not describe the survey's fieldwork dates or methodology beyond the two respondent groups. The framing of the release is that AI has moved critical thinking to the centre of workforce priorities, with employees reporting concern about skill erosion and CHROs naming critical thinking and human judgment as capabilities they consider important. The findings are attributed to the IBM Institute for Business Value, which is named as the publisher, and were distributed through PR Newswire. The figures describe employee concern about AI's effect on their own skills, as reported by survey respondents, rather than measured changes in skill levels. No individual executives or employees are quoted in the excerpt.