{"id":1035647,"date":"2026-09-16T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035647"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:22:03","slug":"uk-workers-spend-nearly-1-billion-of-their-own-money-on-ai-for-work-deloitte-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/16\/uk-workers-spend-nearly-1-billion-of-their-own-money-on-ai-for-work-deloitte-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"UK workers spend nearly \u00a31 billion of their own money on AI for work, Deloitte finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: One is six workers in Britain is paying for an AI tool to help them do their job, at a total cost of nearly \u00a31 billion ($1.4 billion) a year of their own money, according to research published by Deloitte on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The inaugural GenAI Workforce Survey found that two thirds of workers had tried AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, and nearly a quarter were using them daily in their jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Workers were adopting AI faster than their employers were making tools available, the responses suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: One is six workers in Britain is paying for an AI tool to help them do their job, at a total cost of nearly \u00a31 billion ($1.4 billion) a year of their own money, according to research published by Deloitte on Wednesday. The inaugural GenAI Workforce Survey found that two thirds of workers had tried AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, and nearly a quarter were using them daily in their jobs. Workers were adopting AI faster than their employers were making tools available, the responses suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035669,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035647\/revisions\/1035669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}