Additional insights from the report include the following:

Companies must "democratize data" across their organizations or risk business decisions being made by employees' gut instincts. While more than half of workers (56%) gather and use data to make business decisions, 12% say they make decisions by asking the most senior person in the business or department, and 6% admit to going with their gut. It's likely, according to Slingshot, that these workers are defaulting to such decision-making tactics because the data they need to inform specific decisions is not easily accessible or even available to them.

Gen Z is the data generation. As digital natives, Gen Z workers (ages 18-26) are integrating data into their jobs more than any other generation. One hundred percent of Gen Z workers say they use data at work at least a few times a week, with61% saying they use it every day. And while nearly three-fourths (74%) of Gen Z workers are using data to improve performance, only 61% of boomer (ages 59 and over) say the same.

Employees are using data for more than improving productivity and performance. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of workers primarily use data to improve performance, but more than half of them (54%) use data to prioritize goals, and 46% say they use it to create strategic plans and understand customer behaviors and needs.

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Majority of Gen Z workers integrating data to improve daily performance, report finds