AI makes the workday longer and more intense: HBR study
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: Like a puppy, a fun new toy soon turns into an unrelenting taskmaster

A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1341·
    17 hours ago

    They’re using AI inefficiently, then. I use it to get a lot done in very short bursts through the day, and spend longer bursts fucking off in between.

    EDIT: imagine being so brainrotted that you think it’s bad to use AI to reclaim more of your day from your wage slavers.

    • cosmOS@lemmy.zipEnglish
      31·
      9 hours ago

      I know you’ve got the most downvoted comment here, but I actually agree with you completely.

      Using AI to replace genuine creative work is depressing.

      In my experience, the latest AI tools (and agents) are more than capable of cutting corporate corners and generating the kind of bullshit busywork that defines so many “bullshit jobs.”

      It feels like the perfect use case for AI given the system so many of us are stuck in. Be smart and use AI to get some of your time back at the expense of your employers.

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Lemmy is full of militantly anti-AI folks who would rather die on a hill penniless, than use a flawed technology against oppressing influences, in their own favor. Despite the impending bubble pop, the tech isn’t going anywhere, may as well learn how to leverage and exploit it in the workplace.

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      201·
      17 hours ago

      How are you reclaiming more of your day? The wage slavers want you on the office 9 to 7 regardless of how much job you “save” in the meantime. Don’t you want the office to look living and used? Think of the shareholders’s investment on the office space!

      • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        817·
        17 hours ago

        I’ve fooled them into thinking I’m so studious and productive, that I’m only required to spend 4 hours in office, 4 days a week. A good chunk of that time is spent chatting with people I enjoy chatting with over coffee. I’m also naturally reclusive, so the requirement of getting out of the house has a positive impact on my life, regardless of the setting.

        EDIT: I’m playing 4D chess over here while all your downvoters are 2D nut-tapping each other.