Signal Employees accept working with AI agents far more readily than being managed by them

Summary

NTT DATA cites a Workday report showing a clear difference in how employees feel about AI agents depending on their role. Three quarters of employees say they are comfortable working alongside AI agents. Only 30 percent, however, are comfortable being managed by them. The Workday report's own title makes the point that people accept agents as colleagues but not as bosses. NTT DATA uses the finding among its adoption signals for human-orchestrated autonomy, which stresses that humans should set intent and boundaries. The gap suggests a social limit on how far autonomy can extend into supervisory or managerial functions.