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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
February 9, 2026
Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and debugging code—and allowing workers more time for high-value tasks is tantalizing.
AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite.
February 18, 2026
While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifying work rather than reducing it?
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
March 3, 2026
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it.