Dossier
botsitting
Coverage of botsitting in the Nexus archive.
- AI is cutting hours of office work, but also creating a new kind of busywork
A survey found that AI use in office work saves employees about 11 hours per week but also results in an average of six additional hours spent on 'botsitting.' The technology boosts productivity while introducing new time-consuming tasks.
- Workers are spending over 6 hours a week 'botsitting' AI, fueling job frustration
A Glean report found white-collar workers spend 6.4 hours weekly 'botsitting' AI by feeding context, debugging errors, and cleaning outputs. This task, linked to job frustration, makes workers 73% more likely to seek new jobs, despite 75% reporting AI boosts personal productivity. The study surveyed 6,000 workers in the US, UK, and Australia.