Gen Zers are using AI to skip meetings, get promoted faster and win bigger salary hikes. But they don't feel great about it

Gen Z is quietly rewriting the rules at work by letting AI take their meetings. An October study from Software Finder, a software discovery platform and database, found that three in ten survey respondents admitted to skipping a meeting, banking on AI to “have their back” by taking notes.

The survey also found that 19% of full-time worker respondents use AI tools to automatically generate meeting notes. The strategy is paying off for some: According to the research , employees that use AI regularly to take meeting notes were 28% more likely to be promoted, compared to 15% otherwise, and earned nearly $20,000 more annually.

But the tools don’t seem to be working that well. Among those that said they skip meetings and rely on AI notetaking, 41% say that they missed important context in