Good morning. If AI is a workplace superpower, perhaps it should come with a warning label? According to a new study by researchers at the University of California—Berkeley, people who use generative AI tools at work get such a productivity boost that they end up doing more work, not less.
“We found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so,” the researchers write in a Harvard Business Review article that’s getting a lot of buzz. The productivity boost may sound like a good thing to some managers, but the researchers warn that this “workload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making,” and ultimately to lower quality work and turnover. A Faustian bargain for the knowledge worker.
Today’s tech news below.
Alexei Oreskovic
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