ANSR| AI Moves Beyond Hype: 75% of Professionals Say It’s Boosting Productivity, Finds ANSR-Talent500 Survey

India, Dec 01: ANSR, in collaboration with Talent500, has released the AI Advantage Survey Report 2025 Mapping the Journey of India’s Tech Talent in the Age of AI. The study captures insights from over 3,000 professionals across India’s Global Capability Centers (GCCs), spanning Tier-I and Tier-II cities, to understand how the country’s workforce is adopting, adapting to, and accelerating with artificial intelligence in their everyday work.

The findings reveal that AI adoption has quietly moved from experimentation to integration, with a majority of India’s tech talent now using AI tools as a core part of their daily delivery. Yet, while confidence and optimism about AI’s career potential run high, gaps remain in structured learning, organizational support, and leadership enablement.

Key Insights from the Report

• AI Becomes a Core Driver of Work: Nearly 44% of respondents say AI is now a core part of their daily work, with another 36% using it occasionally. The top use cases include coding (68%), research (64%), and data analysis (52%), indicating deep integration into value-creation processes rather than peripheral tasks.

• Performance Gains Are Tangible: Close to 75% of professionals report that AI has directly helped them meet performance goals, with over 60% experiencing productivity improvements between 25–50%.

• Confidence in AI Is at an All-Time High: A vast majority believe AI will make them more productive, valuable, and employable, signalling a positive career mindset toward AI-driven transformation.

• Learning Is Largely Self-Driven: Despite the enthusiasm, over 70% of professionals say they’re learning AI independently through YouTube, open courses, and hands-on experimentation, while only one-third have access to formal employer training programs.

• The Innovation Gap: While 44% have implemented AI ideas within their teams, 42% report that lack of approvals, resources, or guidance often prevent these ideas from scaling, highlighting a major enablement gap for GCCs to address.

• Leadership Awareness Outpaces Enablement: While most employees agree leadership values AI, fewer feel their organizations provide structured learning time or clear AI strategies, signalling the need for stronger frameworks for capability building.

Speaking on the report’s findings, Vikram Ahuja, Co-founder of ANSR and CEO of 1Wrk, said;

 “AI has moved from promise to presence, and the AI Advantage 2025 Survey shows this shift is being felt first and foremost by people. Across thousands of responses, we see a clear mix of optimism, curiosity and a healthy realism: professionals want AI to amplify their capabilities, not replace them.

For GCCs and employers, the imperative is clear - build learning pathways, career architectures and workplace systems that treat technology as a partner in human growth. This report is both a pulse-check and a playbook: invest in skills, redesign career journeys, and commit to an inclusive future where technology expands opportunity for everyone.”

The AI Advantage Survey Report 2025 underlines a defining moment for India’s GCC ecosystem. With employees already embracing AI organically, the task for organizations is no longer to drive adoption, it’s to scale and structure it.