COVID-19 Technology Survey by ABBYY shows two-thirds of businesses adopted AI during lockdown
Working from home during the pandemic has taken its toll on many workers, with one in four wanting to quit because of poor business processes, according to a new survey. The Global COVID-19 Technology Survey discovered nearly half of staff (48%) blamed bad processes for making their job more challenging – with a third saying they waste time(ABBYY).
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The ABBYY Global COVID-19 Technology Survey discovered nearly half of staff (48%) blamed bad processes for making their job more challenging – with a third saying they waste time.
Luckily for some, 64% of companies were quick to adopt new technologies and processes for the first time during the lockdown to help alleviate the stresses of remote working, according to the survey, carried out by Opinium Research in November 2020 on behalf of digital intelligence company ABBYY.
Those using digital workers – aka robotic process automation (RPA) software robots – estimate that they save them an average of 26 hours a week in productivity.
The survey investigating the impact of COVID-19 and automation technologies on office workers included 4,000 staff in 20 industries across the U.S., UK, France, and Germany.
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Other key findings include:
- Three-quarters (74%) of workers feel they experienced challenges since the pandemic began.
- When identifying the cause of their biggest challenges, 40% of workers blame a lack of information on solutions or tasks, while 32% blamed not having the right IT tools.
- In asking what tools could make their job better, the top three answers were communications tools (70%), task monitoring (43%), and AI (39%).
- Software robots are being used by 46% of respondents, who reported that they spend up to two (2) hours a day with their digital co-worker.
- Of those working with digital co-workers, 34% said they were most helpful at sorting and classifying data and documents.
- Those who wished they had a digital co-worker said they would use them for digitizing paper, prompts, and classification purposes and could save 54 days per year using a digital colleague.
As the survey results show, organizations continue to face rising challenges when it comes to quickly and accurately processing content such as documents, forms, images, and email communications. It can require an enormous amount of manual work to find specific information in a document, perform data entry, and route the document for review and approval. The survey revealed that 76% of tools used to help with processes, digitizing the automation and content within paper, and onboarding new clients were deemed successful for respondents, including tools for monitoring employees’ tasks. This points to the growing trend of many organizations that are now turning to technologies like content intelligence, process mining, and task mining to support their digital transformation efforts and discover and address the inefficiencies of business processes in order to optimize the productivity of their staff and meet customer expectations.
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