Botsitting: workers spend 6.4 hours a week managing AI

Category: Pulse
Status: discussion
Sources: Business Insider, HN discussion
Summary: A survey of 6,000 full-time workers in the US, UK, and Australia (conducted December 2025 to January 2026) found workers spend an average of 6.4 hours a week moving information between AI systems, fixing AI errors, and supplying context. 87% use AI at work; 75% say it makes them personally more productive; 13% say their organization performs significantly better. Workers spending an unusually large share of time botsitting are 73% more likely to be actively job-hunting.
Why it matters: High individual adoption with low organizational gain and a hidden supervision labor cost that offsets reported time savings is the current aggregate picture of enterprise AI productivity.