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  "id": "75-percent-knowledge-workers-use-ai-microsoft-2024",
  "slug": "75-percent-knowledge-workers-use-ai-microsoft-2024",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/75-percent-knowledge-workers-use-ai-microsoft-2024/",
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  "claim": "75% of knowledge workers use AI at work (Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2024)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"3 in 4 workers use AI\"",
  "verdict": "outdated",
  "verdict_definition": "Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 3,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Microsoft & LinkedIn",
    "title": "2024 Work Trend Index: AI at Work Is Here. Now Comes the Hard Part (May 8, 2024)",
    "year": "2024"
  },
  "quote": "75% of knowledge workers use AI at work today, and 46% of users started using it less than six months ago.",
  "method": "Survey of 31,000 people in 31 countries plus LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 signals (per the report).",
  "drift": [
    "Scope: knowledge workers in 31 countries, not all workers",
    "Age: early-2024 data; Pew found 16% of US workers do some work with AI"
  ],
  "interest": "Microsoft and LinkedIn sell AI products (Copilot).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Microsoft and LinkedIn's 2024 Work Trend Index reported that 75% of knowledge workers surveyed in 31 countries used AI at work; it is 2024 data from AI vendors.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Microsoft Work Trend Index 2024",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/ai-at-work-is-here-now-comes-the-hard-part",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "Survey early 2024",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}