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A large workplace analysis found AI may be increasing workloads rather than reducing them, with email and messaging usage doubling and focused work time falling 9% among AI users. Despite this, AI adoption has surged from 53% to ~80% of employees over two years, per ActivTrak.
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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02A large analysis of workplace activities suggests artificial intelligence
00:06may be increasing workloads rather than reducing them, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:11Email, messaging, and chat usage more than doubled,
00:14while activity in business management software such as HR and accounting tools rose 94%.
00:20Time spent on focused, uninterrupted work fell 9% among AI users,
00:25while remaining largely unchanged for non-users.
00:27Experts Aruna Ranganathan, Associate Professor at the University of California,
00:33Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
00:35ActiveTrack said AI adoption is accelerating,
00:38with about 80% of employees now using AI tools at work compared with 53% two years ago.
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