Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health
This is not the world we were promised, but it’s the one we should have expected:
The majority (88%) of the most productive AI-enabled workers report feelings of burnout due to an increase in workload. And as a result, these workers are twice as likely to consider quitting their jobs, the report finds.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/09/ai-turbocharging-worker-productivity-wreaking-havoc-on-mental-health/
It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?
More work.
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.
Somewhere, there is a good manager who knows this is not the way to retain talent, but there aren’t that many of them in the wild.
More on this topic here – Heavy AI use at work has a surprising relationship to burnout, new study finds.
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