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# [A Study Watched 200 Workers Use AI for Eight Months. They Worked More, Not Less.](https://mothasa.hashnode.dev/a-study-watched-200-workers-use-ai-for-eight-months-they-worked-more-not-less?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

The pitch was simple: AI handles the grunt work, you go home early. Eight months of observation at one company says the opposite happened. Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye, researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, spent two days a ...

Feb 27 · 4 min read · mothasa.hashnode.dev  
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