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In employee-led AI technology adoption, employees' acceptance of AI is central, as their concerns regarding job security and quality manifest in rhetorics around both the alienation-inducing and alienation-reducing potential of the technology. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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This study aims to understand employees' perspectives on AI's impact on job security and quality during technology adoption.

July 20, 2026Information Technology and PeopleOpen Access

Generative artificial intelligence adoption and employees' perspectives on AI at work: toward unalienated working life or AI-augmented alienation?

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Rapid ethnographic case study explores AI technology adoption and employees' perceived social risks in a Finnish energy company, highlighting implications for acceptance.

Key Points

This study aims to understand employees' perspectives on AI's impact on job security and quality during technology adoption.
Rapid ethnographic case study conducted in a Finnish energy company during the introduction of a generative AI tool.
Analysis based on Marx's framework on alienation and improvisational change management theory.
Explored management of AI technology adoption and employees' perceptions of social risks.
Employees expressed concerns about job security and job quality in relation to AI adoption.
Rhetoric surrounding AI included both fears of alienation and potential benefits of reducing alienation through technology.
Employee initiative in technology adoption emphasized the importance of their acceptance for successful integration.

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Rantanen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5dbab98bd453d3397abde0 https://doi.org/10.1108/itp-09-2025-1353

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July 20, 2026Information Technology and PeopleOpen Access

Generative artificial intelligence adoption and employees' perspectives on AI at work: toward unalienated working life or AI-augmented alienation?

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Authors

VRVisa Rantanen KKKathrin Komp

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Overview

Rapid ethnographic case study explores AI technology adoption and employees' perceived social risks in a Finnish energy company, highlighting implications for acceptance.

Key Points

This study aims to understand employees' perspectives on AI's impact on job security and quality during technology adoption.
Rapid ethnographic case study conducted in a Finnish energy company during the introduction of a generative AI tool.
Analysis based on Marx's framework on alienation and improvisational change management theory.
Explored management of AI technology adoption and employees' perceptions of social risks.
Employees expressed concerns about job security and job quality in relation to AI adoption.
Rhetoric surrounding AI included both fears of alienation and potential benefits of reducing alienation through technology.
Employee initiative in technology adoption emphasized the importance of their acceptance for successful integration.

Cite This Study

Rantanen et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5dbab98bd453d3397abde0 https://doi.org/10.1108/itp-09-2025-1353

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