"85% of respondents said that AI saved them 1-7 hours a week, but about 37% of that time savings is lost to what they call "rework" - correcting errors, rewriting content and verifying output. Only 14% of respondents said they get consistently positive outcomes from AI. Workday surveyed 3,200 employees who said they are using AI - half in leadership positions - at companies in North America, Europe and Asia with at least $100 million in revenue and 150 employees."
"Zoom out: "There is a big productivity paradox," Gerrit Kazmaier, president of product at Workday, tells Axios. The most frequent users of AI, he says, are the ones investing the most time in reviewing and correcting what it produces. The findings line up with other studies that call AI productivity gains into question - from MIT and Harvard Business Review. The term "workslop" has caught on for a reason."
"Friction point: Typically, the better someone gets at using a technology, the more efficient they become. But with AI, as you get more proficient, you start to understand more about the ways in which the tech can go wrong, Kazmaier says. He points to people who might run the same prompts across multiple AI models - and check the outcomes against each other."
An HR software company study found that 85% of employees reported AI saved them 1–7 hours weekly, but about 37% of that time savings is lost to rework such as correcting errors, rewriting content, and verifying output. Only 14% of respondents reported consistently positive AI outcomes. The study sampled 3,200 AI-using employees across North America, Europe, and Asia at firms with at least $100 million in revenue and 150 employees. The report did not specify which AI products were used. Heavy AI users often spend more time reviewing and correcting outputs, producing a productivity paradox and the notion of "workslop." CEOs expect AI-driven layoffs, though many cuts may stem from other factors.
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