Overview

• The ongoing survey of about 1,150 U.S. full-time employees reports that 40% received AI-generated “workslop” in the past month.
• Researchers define workslop as polished-looking output that fails to advance the task and shifts remediation to recipients.
• Respondents say each incident takes roughly two hours to fix, with an estimated $186 per employee per month in lost productivity.
• Only about 15.4% of AI-generated content was judged usable by recipients in the study’s early results.
• Trust and collaboration suffer, with 42% trusting senders less and workslop flowing both ways between staff and managers, including 18% sent up and 16% coming down.