"It's been less than three years since ChatGPT lit the fuse of the current explosion of AI everywhere. AI years move even faster than Internet years, so there's been time not only for the forcible injection of AI into the workplace courtesy of Microsoft, but the first scientific studies of the effect. Productivity may not have gone up, but anxiety, confusion and annoyance most certainly have."
"So says a study from Stanford, which has surveyed corporate America and found AI has infiltrated inter-employee communiction, creating emails and other documents that are difficult to act on and clog up process and progress. Plenty of dollars per worker per month are being lost coping with this, with many expressing a low opinion of others who generate AI docs."
"The inference is that this is a problem with the technology, but from another angle it may be one of its most laudable strengths. It is certainly one of its closest alignments with the actual needs of many humans. AI is advancing the art of shirking. Decried by the managerial class as lazy, shoddy, anti-productive behaviour to be called out, sought out and stamped out, work avoidance is actually one of the finest acts of self-empowerment in the corporate world."
AI has rapidly entered workplaces, often driven by major vendors, and has altered inter-employee communication patterns. AI-generated emails and documents frequently prove difficult to act on, clogging processes and slowing progress while costing organizations money per worker per month. Many employees form low opinions of colleagues who produce AI outputs perceived as low quality. The technology's tendency to reduce effort aligns with human inclinations toward shirking and work avoidance. Work avoidance is reframed as an adaptive, skillful form of self-empowerment and a protective response to perceived organizational disrespect.
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