Key stat: 45% of US employees used AI at work at least a few times a year in Q3 2025, more than double the 21% who said the same in Q2 2023, according to a December report from Gallup.

Beyond the chart:

• Workers are preparing for AI's impact before seeing it. Some 76% plan to learn new AI skills in 2026, according to Workera.
• Meanwhile, enterprise deployment lags behind experimentation. Only 11% of organizations have AI agents in production, according to Deloitte.

Use this chart: Drop this into workforce planning decks to benchmark your team's AI adoption against the national average. Show it to leadership pushing AI training programs; the jump from 21% to 45% proves the tools are landing. Use it to justify training budgets by highlighting the gap between occasional users (45%) and daily adopters (10%).

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Methodology: Data is from the December 2025 Gallup report titled "AI Use at Work Rises." 23,068 US adults working full-time or part-time for organizations were surveyed during August 5-19, 2025. All respondents were members of the Gallup Panel, selected through probability-based, random sampling. The sample was weighted to match national demographics for gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, and region based on the most recent Current Population Survey.