{"id":523528,"date":"2026-03-14T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523528\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:25:14","slug":"ai-tools-making-work-more-intense-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/523528\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Tools Making Work More Intense, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artificial intelligence was expected to make work easier and reduce workload. But new data suggest the opposite may be happening in many workplaces.<\/p>\n

A study by workforce analytics firm ActivTrak found that AI tools are actually making work more intense for employees rather than reducing their workload.<\/p>\n

The company analysed the digital work activity of about 164,000 employees and discovered a surprising shift in work patterns.<\/p>\n

According to the study, workers are now spending more time on emails and messaging platforms, while the time spent on focused tasks such as problem-solving has dropped by about 9%.<\/p>\n

Experts believe this change is happening because the time saved by AI tools is quickly being filled with other work responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Gabriela Mauch, an executive at ActivTrak, explained that the extra capacity created by AI does not necessarily lead to less work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat typically happens is that the capacity AI frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

As companies rapidly adopt AI-powered tools for productivity, communication, and automation, employees are finding themselves handling more tasks rather than fewer.<\/p>\n

The ActivTrak research is considered one of the largest studies so far examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping everyday work habits.<\/p>\n

The findings suggest that while AI improves efficiency, it may also be changing the nature of work\u2014making employees busier in new ways rather than reducing their workload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence was expected to make work easier and reduce workload. But new data suggest the opposite may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[235942,182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-523528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-activtrak","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}