In the past, an ordinary office worker’s income planning was to allocate one-third to rent, one-third to daily expenses, and one-third to savings. But starting from this era, more and more people’s income has been divided into four equal parts, with one part reserved for AI top-ups. All people who need to work at their…
When companies reward visible activity, employees may learn to hide the time AI saves. getty AI is freeing up employees’ time. Companies are giving them every reason to hide it. Leaders say employees must transform how they work. Yet they continue to reward those who appear fully occupied by current work. Those expectations are incompatible….
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming offices around the world, introduced as a tool to save time and maximise productivity. However, some employees say its function extends far beyond productivity and that it’s becoming the voice behind their boss’ key decisions. There have been growing doubts among employees that some managers are going even further, utilising…
For much of 2026, artificial intelligence inside large companies resembled an open-ended experiment. Employees were encouraged to use AI assistants as much as possible. They generated code, summarised meetings, analysed data and produced reports at unprecedented speed. In some organisations, using more AI became a badge of honour rather than simply a way to improve…
India’s largest IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic that will provide access to Claude AI for 50,000 employees. The move represents one of the biggest enterprise AI deployments by an Indian technology company and signals TCS’s growing commitment to integrating generative AI into its workforce and client…
Uber has introduced a monthly spending limit on employee use of AI coding tools, becoming one of the latest technology companies to tighten oversight of artificial intelligence costs as adoption accelerates across the business. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company has set a $1,500 monthly spending cap per employee for each AI coding…
Artificial intelligence came, it improved workflows, and now it is slapping companies with big bills that some are struggling to manage. After Microsoft reportedly moved to limit access to certain AI coding tools internally, Uber has now started restricting employee use of popular AI coding platforms such as Claude Code and Cursor after reportedly exhausting…
Meta has laid off thousands of workers as part of its plan to transition to artificial intelligence (AI). The company reportedly relied on several standards to select employees for layoffs, including performance evaluations, department restructuring, and AI initiatives, with internal experimentation around AI usage metrics reportedly influencing engineering output assessments. Part of that process included…
A man walks past the sign of Samsung Electronics Co. at its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by YONHAP / EPA May 26 (Asia Today) — Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it plans to officially introduce external generative artificial intelligence services for employees in its Device eXperience, or DX, division beginning next month. The South…
Kim Byoung-pil The author is a professor of technology management at KAIST. The office environment is changing rapidly. AI is now drafting business plans, designing marketing campaigns and even handling customer service and bookkeeping. Such multitasking capabilities are particularly useful for small organizations, where the work force is often limited. Startups…
