6 ways to stop cleaning up after AI - and keep your productivity gains

A Workday survey of 3,200 practitioners, reported by ZDNET, finds that while AI delivers time savings (with 85% saving 1–7 hours weekly), an average of 37% of those gains are lost to rework—amounting to about 1.5 weeks per year fixing outputs—and only 14% consistently achieve net-positive outcomes; the article recommends protecting AI productivity by investing in people, ramping up AI training, updating roles and job expectations to reflect AI-enabled work, rethinking productivity metrics toward outcomes (not speed), and using saved time to strengthen collaboration, learning, and judgment-driven tasks.