More than 90 per cent of the Canadian workforce could have its working hours reduced by 10 per cent with the adoption of large language models, a report says. Twenty-five per cent of the Canadian workforce could move to a four-day work week in the next decade by taking advantage of productivity gains made possible by artificial intelligence , a new report says.
The report matches Canadian government workforce data and forecasts with indices used by the International Monetary Fund to quantify the impact of AI on different sectors, and uses productivity models published by Goldman Sachs to estimate possible gains. Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec, Alberta, and Nova Scotia have the highest proportion of workers who could work four-day weeks, the report says.observes that average annual working hours declined from 1997 to 2022, but productivity grew, supporting the argument that productivity is not only about time spent. Some critics say four-day week plans favour white-collar workers and others who already have an economic advantage. But O’Connor says the AI gains could have broad application.
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