{"id":21707,"date":"2026-01-26T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T08:37:16","slug":"more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a quarter of Britons say they fear losing jobs to AI in next five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survey reveals \u2018mismatched AI expectations\u2019 between views of employers and staff over impact on careers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/26\/ai-uk-jobs-us-japan-germany-australia\">AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a quarter (27%) of UK workers are worried their jobs could disappear in the next five years as a result of AI, according to a survey of thousands of employees.<\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds (66%) of UK employers reported having invested in AI in the past 12 months, according to the international recruitment company Randstad\u2019s annual review of the world of work, while more than half (56%) of workers said more companies were encouraging the use of AI tools in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/jan\/25\/more-than-quarter-britons-fear-losing-jobs-ai-next-five-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ccb3585e1300ef92e8d95b524c02caa9facf0383\/130_0_3372_2698\/master\/3372.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b2cfce8e9f2a7df1b99dceb5b41548f7\" title=\"More than a quarter of Britons say they fear losing jobs to AI in next five years\" \/>Survey reveals \u2018mismatched AI expectations\u2019 between views of employers and staff over impact on careers<br \/>\nAI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds<br \/>\nMore than a quarter (27%) of UK workers are worried their jobs could disappear in the next five years as a result of AI, according to a survey of thousands of employees.<br \/>\nTwo-thirds (66%) of UK employers reported having invested in AI in the past 12 months, according to the international recruitment company Randstad\u2019s annual review of the world of work, while more than half (56%) of workers said more companies were encouraging the use of AI tools in the workplace. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survey reveals \u2018mismatched AI expectations\u2019 between views of employers and staff over impact on careers AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds More than a quarter (27%) of UK workers are worried their jobs could disappear in the next five years as a result of AI, according to a survey of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/more-than-a-quarter-of-britons-say-they-fear-losing-jobs-to-ai-in-next-five-years\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than a quarter of Britons say they fear losing jobs to AI in next five years<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}