Noam Segal: belief

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…And this is another data point at the end of this, that you have a bunch of recommendations of what to do with all this information, and that connects to something that you recommend later. ... what to do with all this information, and that connects to something that you recommend later. But before we get there, one of the other really interesting takeaways was around layoffs and how layoffs impact fear of layoffs impact burnout. Talk about that. We did ask people how worried they are about being laid off. And as you can see, 72% of our sample are worried to a certain extent about being laid off, and 41.2% are at least moderately worried about being laid off. So it is clear that people are feeling that they might be cutting the branch that they're sitting on when it comes to using AI. People are reporting that their company's going all in on agents, all in on these technologies, and it does feel like they may be pushed out at some point, so the worry level is high. And I think if you're watching this, you're starting to notice that there's a ton of ambivalence right now in the community, and a ton of clashes between emotions, feeling energized and enjoying my job, and at the same time, not being very optimistic about it and feeling tired from it and feeling worried that all of that enjoyment is going to end one day when the company I work for decides that I'm no longer needed. I feel a lot of people listening are probably feeling all this and feeling heard. So what's interesting is so far the two takeaways. One is this bifurcation that's happening, and these archetypes that break that group up a little bit further. At the same time, just broadly, burnout is increasing significantly. Optimism is declining. Talk about just those two, how you think about those two side by side, this idea of many people are much happier and having the best time of their life. My people are having a really bad time, but then broadly, this optimism and burnout shift.…

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