How much time are people spending “helping AI” save them time?
Glean’s 2026 Work AI Index surveyed 6,000 digital workers across the US, UK, and Australia, and they estimated that they spend 6.4 hours a week “botsitting”:
🔸 → 2.3 hours spent on supplying context
🔸→ 2.2 hours spent supervising its outputs
🔸→ Finally, 1.7 hours spent debugging AI mistakes
With better tools and integrations, it is possible to reduce repeated context-setting and avoidable errors. However, checking accuracy, applying judgment, handling exceptions, and taking responsibility for the result remain human work. It can't be delegated to AI.
The same study found that employees who improved both quality and productivity spent a greater share of their AI time on these activities.
This brings us to a question leaders should focus on:
Which parts of this work can we reduce, and which must be planned into the workflow?
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ALT Graphic titled “The Hidden Work AI Time Savings Miss.” It identifies five types of human work that remain across an AI-supported workflow: setting context, verifying outputs, reviewing and reworking, supervising actions, and handling exceptions. These activities require context, judgment, quality control, oversight, and accountability. The graphic asks which effort can be reduced and what doing the work well still requires.