Original title: Daily job crafting with generative artificial intelligence: Implications for work meaningfulness and engagement
Job craftingChanges workers choose to make to the demands or resources of their jobs. means workers change parts of their own jobs to make them work better for them. In this study, employees used generative AI to add helpful resources or challenges, or to automate tasks that got in the way. The researchers tracked daily AI use and work experiences over ten workdays. AI-driven job crafting was linked to engagement through workers' needs being met and their work feeling meaningful; the clearest pattern involved feeling capable.
Imagine packing your bag before a busy day. You can add what will help, take out what gets in the way, or make room for something you care about. The hard part is deciding whether that change simply makes the bag lighter or helps you spend your day better. In this paper, the bag changes stand for workers using AI to reshape tasks, and making room for valued things stands for redirecting effort toward meaningful work.
For employees who use generative AI at work, the way they choose to use it may shape how engaged and purposeful their work feels that day. The study suggests that AI can help workers redirect effort toward valued tasks, though different ways of using it connect to those feelings differently.
The study reports associations, so the abstract does not establish that AI-driven job crafting causes greater engagement or meaningfulness. Its participants were UK-based full-time employees who already used Gen-AI at work daily or multiple times per day, so the findings do not establish what happens for other workers or less frequent users.
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Daily job crafting with generative artificial intelligence: Implications for work meaningfulness and engagement — Neris GÜVEN, Wendelien van Eerde, Almasa Sarabi et al. — Journal of Vocational Behavior — doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2026.104297
Abstract licence: CC BY
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