Nearly half of workers, 46%, admitted to spending up to four hours a day during working hours on social media for personal use, according to survey results announced by Monster. This is despite 57% saying social media use in the workplace is unprofessional.

The survey also found that 62% of workers say their coworkers don’t follow them on social media platforms, excluding work-related social media such as LinkedIn. Meanwhile, 50% of workers prefer their employers not follow them on social media so they can avoid mixing their personal and professional lives.

Additionally, 22% of respondents said they are afraid of their employers finding their personal social media accounts, 86% of whom were concerned about being judged for what they post or that they follow accounts or post content that may be controversial or unsuitable for work.

Further, 56% of workers think it’s unethical for employers to scan or scroll through their employees’ social media accounts, excluding work-related social media accounts such as LinkedIn.

Monster surveyed 334 US workers for the Social Media in the Workplace survey.

HR leaders eye using AI

More than 75% of HR leaders at companies with 20 or more employees plan to use artificial intelligence within the next 12 months, according to a survey by Paychex Inc. Thirty percent intend to employ it mostly for applicant tracking purposes, while 29% say they’ll utilize it for assessing employee satisfaction.

Meanwhile, at companies with between five and 19 employees, 51% of HR leaders plan to use AI in the next 12 months.

In addition, the survey asked about challenges for HR leaders. For those at companies with 20 or more employees, those challenges included:

  • Employee burnout, 32%
  • Quiet quitting, 27%
  • Full-time employees working a full-time second job, 25%
  • Boomerang employees, 23%

The survey included 1,250 HR leaders and took place from February 24 to March 31.

 

Is that writing artificial? About half can tell

Humans can identify AI-generated content only about 55% of the time, according to a study by Nexcess.

The study included 1,000 individuals who said they were moderately familiar with AI. They were provided with side-by-side sets of images and copy. For each set, they were asked to identify which was AI-generated and which was human-generated.

They correctly identified AI-generated copy 57% of the time, while they identified AI-generated images correctly only 53% of the time.

Younger participants tended to be more successful at detecting AI.

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New grads prefer in-person work

When asked, 43% of upcoming college graduates ranked “in person only” as their top choice for a job location, according to a survey by Intelligent.com. Only 34% said “hybrid,” and 23% said “remote only.”

The survey also found that the minimum salary one in four upcoming grads would accept is $70,000, despite the average starting salary for someone with a bachelor’s degree being close to $60,000.

In addition, 91% say a company’s ethical standpoint is “very” or “somewhat” important.

Included in the survey were responses from 345 higher education students ranging in age from 20 to 25 from the graduating classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Intelligent.com provides research to help students make informed decisions about higher education programs.