What Is 'Workslop,' The AI Trend Workers Hate?

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68f8b6ec1800002332fe3db4.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Person working" data-caption="Person working" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Glenn Carstens-Peters via Unsplash" />Person working</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p>If you take a <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/the-40-jobs-most-at-risk-of-ai-and-40-it-cant-touch-13447013" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">July report pubished by Microsoft</a> (which <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a-20-billion-clock-is-ticking-for-openai-as-microsoft-talks-turn-fractious-130006071.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADa1QawbweBIdC42nlhc_-MCAwIW_cO-9ckvg9IxFC0FBo8vbuX6JhDFOgKen9TxwJkvKg3IQ9qqpJImWZ1nmi6VqMgl9UdTZ--rlhX1-PwB0Ml_wbMmHkxKFIgogJLCANUs1rg_WDPihzpIBLTaaqW3GgxInAKJciCLqTBmG34q" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has invested billions</a> into OpenAI) at face value, you might have reason to fear artificial intelligence’s impact on your job. </p><p>After analysing hundreds of thousands of conversations with its Co-Pilot chatbot, <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/the-40-jobs-most-at-risk-of-ai-and-40-it-cant-touch-13447013" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sky News reports</a>, the company “concluded [AI] could complete at least 90% of the work carried out by historians and coders, 80% of salespeople and journalists, and 75% of DJs and data scientists”. </p><p>But if you ask the researchers behind a study published by the <a href="https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Harvard Business Review<