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Worker Perspectives on Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Office Workspaces: Implications for the Future of Office Work
Originally published 2021-02-10 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph18041690 ↗
AI / system type
Proposed AI-supported office environments, including lighting, temperature and posture support
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Proposed AI-supported office environments, including lighting, temperature and posture support. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings office workers’ preferences and concerns about AI in their workspace into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers qualitative focus-group study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is office workers’ preferences and concerns about AI in their workspace. Source setting or population: 45 office-workspace participants across six focus groups. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Would an AI-adjusted office feel helpful, intrusive, or both?
This qualitative focus-group study examines office workers’ preferences and concerns about AI in their workspace. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
45 office-workspace participants across six focus groups
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Would an AI-adjusted office feel helpful, intrusive, or both?
- What do this study’s design and population — 45 office-workspace participants across six focus groups — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering office workers’ preferences and concerns about AI in their workspace, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Focus groups identify perspectives rather than their population prevalence; proposed office AI applications were not evaluated as long-term health interventions.
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Yoko E. Fukumura; Julie McLaughlin Gray; Gale M. Lucas; Burcin Becerik-Gerber; Shawn C. Roll (2021). Worker Perspectives on Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Office Workspaces: Implications for the Future of Office Work International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18041690
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