The workplace has discovered a new job. Nobody advertised it. Nobody costed it. Nobody put it on the org chart.
It is botsitting.
Workers are spending more time prompting, correcting, feeding context into AI systems, checking the output, explaining the output, and occasionally apologising for the output when it wanders into the bushes wearing a confident little hat.
That is the contradiction sitting underneath this week’s stories. AI is presented as leverage. In practice, it often creates a new layer of supervision. Humans are still there, but the job shifts from doing the work to managing the machine that is supposed to do the work.
Your employees know the truth. Does your EVP? At Fathom we measure the "Credibility Gap" between your promise and their reality.
That has consequences. For early-career talent. For managers. For HR. For recruiters. For trust.
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