Businesses could be facing a
Workers are feeling fear of technology and are worried about its effect on their job, according to new research from Microsoft, and that could put British businesses digital transformations at risk.
Introducing new technology in the workplace is making the majority of people - three in five - feel anxious while the same number have concerns over whether their job is safe when it comes to tasks being automated.
And half of staff express such fears about change when businesses introduce any "digital transformation" projects, the study by Goldsmiths University and YouGov found and more than a quarter of business leaders said they meet "resistance" from employees.
Despite such concerns, fewer than a quarter of businesses were investing in addressing this human side of when it comes to introducing new technology.
“We are seeing a growing divide between those organisations that are geared towards driving the cultural change that supports technology investments, and those that are not," said Microsoft UK's chief operating officer Clare Barclay.
