AI Is Making People Work Longer

AI was meant to buy time. For many teams, it’s doing the opposite. This week: why AI can lengthen workdays, how L&D is being pushed to prove impact, why remote work is drifting into law, and what fresh job cuts say about where the pressure is landing.

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The tool is fast. The day isn’t...

The sales pitch for workplace AI has been consistent: faster work, fewer boring tasks, better output.

The lived experience is getting more complicated. Some teams are shipping more, but also staying later. Some leaders see adoption, but can’t see the payoff. In the background, remote work is becoming less a perk and more a legal process. And as companies spend heavily on AI infrastructure, job cuts keep arriving in the same inbox.

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This week’s Paper Cut pulls these threads into four themes, then closes with The Cut List.

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