2026
Hinds says the Work AI Index survey was fielded in December 2025 and January 2026.
“We fielded it December and and January of 2025, 2026.”
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Rebecca Hinds
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2026
Hinds says about 36% of AI sessions fail, meaning the worker must start over or do significant rework.
“We're seeing about 36% of all AI sessions fail, meaning a worker goes to use the technology and it's not successful.”
2026
Hinds says roughly 40 to 41 percent of employees report shipping AI work they could not explain if asked.
“We see forty to forty-one of employees saying they ship AI work that they couldn't explain if asked.”
2026
Hinds says she and Bob Sutton are writing a piece, hoped for Harvard Business Review, on how to flatten organizations well.
“Bob Sutton, and I were working on a piece right now. Hopefully it'll be in in Harvard Business Review.”
2026
Hinds says the Work AI Index is planned as a pulse survey repeated roughly every six months to track changes over time.
“Every six months or so, the goal is to be able to track this longitudinally.”
Undated
Hinds describes some organizations running hackathons that award prizes for prompt improvement, co-creation and peer feedback, not only for business impact.
“They also give prizes for improvement, best before and after prompt. They give prizes for co creation, feedback, peer feedback.”
Undated
Hinds says a CHRO at one of the largest healthcare organizations used AI to map all roles and found 70% of tasks overlapped with other roles.
“they've used AI to task map all their roles and just determine that 70% of all tasks are overlapping with other roles across roles.”
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