"Surveying 1,150 desk workers in the US, the researchers found that 40% of respondents said they believed they had received this sort of AI-made sloppy work from their colleagues, which can take on many deceiving forms, like visually pleasing slide shows, long reports, or code that doesn't actually translate to a thoughtful product. On average, employees surveyed said they spent nearly two hours sorting through or cleaning up each instance of workslop."
""We see that people are just sort of proliferating these documents, offloading the work onto another human, and then having this unintended consequence - there's a whole lack of trust as a result," says Kate Niederhoffer, head of research at BetterUp Labs. It's not that AI use at work can't be effective, she says, but "using it without high enough agency" leads to issues. That's a problem not just for the bottom line, but for relationships between employees. If your coworker foists lengthy, useless docs generated by AI onto your desk, it can feel like they're not pulling their weight or not capable of doing the work themselves. "It's the human dynamic that suffers because of our usage of this tool," says Niederhoffer."
The term 'workslop' names AI-generated workplace content that appears polished but lacks substantive value and often burdens recipients. A survey of 1,150 US desk workers found 40% believed they had received AI-made sloppy work, which can take forms such as visually pleasing slide decks, long reports, or code that does not translate into a thoughtful product. Employees reported spending nearly two hours on average cleaning up each instance of workslop. Using AI without sufficient human agency shifts cleanup onto colleagues, reduces trust, harms interpersonal dynamics, and can undermine productivity and morale.
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