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BBC — Technology · September 9, 2026

Should promotion depend on how workers use AI?

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THE AI ANGLE
Serving as a performance evaluation metric determining employee bonuses, promotions, and job security

Major corporations are increasingly tying employee bonuses, promotions, and retention to the adoption and fluent use of artificial intelligence tools, sometimes tracking activity via leaderboards and performance metrics. For management and HR educators, this development highlights a significant workplace shift where the rush to capture returns on AI investments risks creating a two-tier workforce, disincentivizing workers who fear engineering their own redundancy, and triggering performative compliance.

THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can examine the tension between using AI adoption as a key performance indicator to drive operational efficiency versus the unintended organizational risk of incentivizing performative, low-value chatbot usage over experienced professional judgement.

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