Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 31 | Page 20

INFOGRAPHIC INFOGRAPHIC Employees in companies embracing Digital Transformation have increased job satisfaction N ew research from ServiceNow, a leading enterprise cloud based provider of digital workflows, has revealed employees in EMEA companies, embracing workplace automation, report greater job satisfaction (62%), customer satisfaction (71%) boosted productivity (72%) and increased time for creativity (62%). Two thirds say workplace automation improves their organisation’s financial performance and nearly half believe they benefit from job creation. • 31% are concerned about learning new skills or processes and 28% worry about changing the way their job is performed • Only 17% worry about losing their job • Employees in highly digitised companies report they benefit from increased job creation (42%) as opposed to only 23% in less automated companies (23%) • 86% view AI technologies as the future of work • Under a fifth (16%) fear being told what to do by a machine EMEA employees express that the rise in digitisation enables them to benefit from automating menial tasks, subsequently improving their opportunities for advancement (64%) and more meaningful work. Yet fewer than one in three of companies studied (27%) have automated the processes with which they work, leaving over two thirds of work processes with substantial manual activity. Employees have a desire to learn and improve digital skills Employees worry more about change than fear of machines Increased financial success There has been much rhetoric around ‘fear of machines’, yet employees studied worry more about change than robots taking their jobs: Employees in ‘highly automated’ organisations are more likely than those with less automated processes to report that their firms have high 20 INTELLIGENTCIO • 66% of employees have a desire to learn or improve their digital skills • 15% say their job requires advanced digital skills • 75% believe they have the digital skills required to perform their job well • Only 18% find adapting to digitised work processes difficult www.intelligentcio.com