Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It’s a Productivity Miracle
Frank Landymore
created: Jan. 24, 2026, 2:45 p.m. | updated: Feb. 3, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
And just two percent said that AI saves them more than 12 hours.
Executives “automatically assume AI is going to be the savior,” Steve McGarvey, a user experience designer, told the WSJ.
Meanwhile, Microsoft and Google’s bosses have bragged that a large chunk of their companies’ code is written with AI.
A widely covered MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that adopted AI saw no meaningful growth in revenue.
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