{"id":1673,"date":"2026-04-09T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/1673\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:18:13","slug":"a-i-bosses-are-becoming-obsessed-with-chatgpt-its-creating-more-work-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/1673\/","title":{"rendered":"A.I.: Bosses are becoming obsessed with ChatGPT. It\u2019s creating more work for employees."},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Jessica, who works in media, was having concerns about one of her writers, she went to her own manager for help. This writer didn\u2019t seem to know some of the basic skills of their role, but Jessica\u2019s manager had a solution: Had she tried asking ChatGPT?<\/p>\n

This was not the first time Jessica\u2019s manager had made this suggestion. In fact, it was becoming difficult to remember the last time her manager had actually answered any question herself. If she wasn\u2019t instructing others to ask ChatGPT, she was doing it on her own\u2014for workplace issues, editorial decisions, and even Jessica\u2019s annual review. (Jessica, like everyone else quoted in this story, requested that her name be changed to protect her privacy.) \u201cIt\u2019s like she\u2019s trying to turn her brain off,\u201d Jessica told me.<\/p>\n

A.I. use at work has nearly doubled<\/a> in the past few years, especially in white-collar industries. Although a Gallup poll found that 44 percent of employees say their organizations have begun integrating A.I. into their workflow, only 22 percent note that there has been a strategy for doing so, and even less have found any value in it. Yet bosses, according to many I spoke to for this story, can\u2019t get enough\u2014resulting in a lot more work and headaches for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen it used for everything: Completely rewriting press releases that were written by actual humans, deciding on brand partners based on what A.I. says, giving feedback, coming up with creative ideas or copywriting and not changing them at all,\u201d Derek, who works in the food industry, told me. \u201cAnything you can think of, the leaders have used it for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Employees across sectors ranging from law to marketing to academia told me this enthusiasm often isn\u2019t backed up by a thorough understanding of the tools. They\u2019ll ask questions and be sent back a link to their boss\u2019s conversation with ChatGPT, which sometimes loads nothing. \u201cI got feedback to be more concise at work, yet am routinely sent copypasta from ChatGPT that is literally the longest shit known to man,\u201d said Mel, who works in finance. \u201cI can\u2019t read it.\u201d As a result, the work of deciphering\u2014and sometimes fixing\u2014a boss\u2019s A.I. effort becomes an additional task on an employee\u2019s plate.<\/p>\n

Jessica, for instance, did ask ChatGPT what to do about her direct report\u2014and it suggested she send them to journalism school. Instead, she went to the company\u2019s HR department, which, she says, shared more actionable advice. Another employee I spoke to, who works in the legal industry, was instructed to run her ideas through A.I. before coming to her boss. But bots often fail to grasp basic facts, such as insisting that the ratio 1:100 simplifies to 1:25. \u201cIt absolutely takes me more time to attempt to extract a useful answer from A.I. than it would take for [my manager] to just give me a two-minute answer to whatever I\u2019m asking him to weigh in on,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

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It would be easy to conclude that this is merely a case of managers using A.I. to do less work, but many employees have noticed something puzzling: Their managers seem more burned out than ever. \u201cAs much as I think I get 10 people\u2019s worth of work done daily, it\u2019s only ramped up the expectations,\u201d a solutions architect who works in the tech industry told me.<\/p>\n

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While A.I.\u2019s selling point is its ability to quickly take care of otherwise-time-consuming tasks, the Harvard Business Review recently found<\/a> that this feature only ends up intensifying employee workload, not reducing it. Maintaining a faster pace to tackle more tasks results in longer workdays. It\u2019s not hard to imagine this \u201cworkload creep\u201d leading managers to outsource even more of their tasks to A.I. to account for it.<\/p>\n

But employees like Derek aren\u2019t quite as generous with their diagnosis: \u201cThey are getting cavities in their brains.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two things may be true: A.I. is putting unsustainable pressure on managers, and an overreliance on A.I. is causing previously standard skills to atrophy. \u201cShe isn\u2019t used to making independent decisions anymore,\u201d Jessica said of her manager. \u201cSo day-to-day stuff becomes way more overwhelming and high stakes than it needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unless organizations develop clear strategies, A.I. in the workplace becomes a bull in a china shop\u2014with those who never even wanted it tasked with cleaning up the mess. Until then, it\u2019s easier for some to just opt out entirely. \u201cAs always,\u201d the legal employee battling the chatbot said, \u201cI ended up just using my real, actual brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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