An international survey conducted by Indeed’s Hiring Lab finds 80% of respondents who use AI on the job say it allows them to spend an extra hour per day on higher-value work.

Analysts say that, in all eight countries included in the survey, personal use of AI tools outpaces professional use, and encouragement by employers is a key determinant: Ireland leads with a 37% “high encourage rate,” the United States is in the middle of the pack at 19%, and Japan is last at 12%.

Conversely, 61% of Japanese workers who are active AI users say they need more AI training, followed by Irish respondents at 58%; Americans are last at 41%. In all cases, users are more likely to say they are not receiving enough AI training than non-users.

In “A Tale of Two Workforces: Who’s Using AI and Who’s Getting Left Behind,” a report based on the survey, Indeed’s Yusuke Aoki points to a correlation between job satisfaction and AI adoption.

“The lower scores on workplace thriving (7-20 percentage points) and sense of purpose (3-16 points) suggest that AI disengagement does not exist in isolation; it appears linked to broader workplace detachment,” Aoki writes. “Whether one causes the other remains an open question, but the association is consistent across all eight countries.”

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