productivity paradox

AI tools are saving digital workers about 11 hours a week while also forcing them to spend roughly 6.4 hours supervising, correcting, rerunning, and contextualizing AI output, according to a June 2026 Work AI Institute report based on 6,000 workers in the United States, United Kingdom, and...

The first sign that something had gone seriously wrong wasn't a software bug or a server outage — it was the silent disappearance of lunch hours and the steady growth of evening "micro tasks" in chat logs and calendar edits. What began as a productivity revolution, powered by assistants like...