"When you talk to people about breaking them down, they feel like they're going to get flattened. This negative perception of breaking down siloes can impact the organization's ability to solve the siloes in the first place."
"Increased in-person collaboration across a core part of our merchandising team will help us reinforce our merchandising authority, unlocking greater creativity and enabling us to move faster to deliver on our strategy."
AI was supposed to lessen your workload, but it's actually making you work more. That's the finding of an eight-month study from UC Berkeley. Researchers tracked 200 employees at a U.S. tech company and discovered workers using generative AI didn't work less-they worked faster and took on broader projects, often extending work into more hours voluntarily. The main culprits were task expansion, with employees doing work that previously belonged to others, and blurred boundaries as workers prompted AI during lunch or breaks.
