One “must” for this week: How much time do your employees spend botsitting?
A lot of the promise of AI is to automate tedious work so we can focus on higher-value tasks, but the agents we delegate work to often lack the invisible context required to perform tasks correctly.
As a result, we end up “botsitting” the agent, spending nearly a full workday a week (6.4 hours) supplying context, catching errors, and reviewing outputs before the AI’s work can even be used.
This labor is mostly invisible and unrewarded, and it comes with real mental wear, not just lost time. In the end, the agents can still save us time, but only once we’ve invested a real effort into managing them.
That work needs a name, an owner, and accountability within organizations, otherwise this burden just gets silently absorbed by individual employees.
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