Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
While tech executives promote AI as a tool to reduce working hours, employees at leading AI firms report grueling schedules and high-pressure environments. Discrepancies between corporate messaging and internal culture suggest that AI adoption has not yet led to the promised work-life balance.
Why it matters
This exposes the disconnect between the public narrative of AI-driven productivity and the reality of labor practices within the tech industry.
Image source, Getty Images By Kali Hays Technology reporter Published 14 minutes ago For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working.
An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025 , external .
Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. It formally urged companies to start testing out a four-day work week (with no change in pay), claiming that AI will soon be able to speed up so much human labour that the corporate world should prepare itself.
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