The Hidden Cost of AI at Work: UK Employees Spend 6 Hours Weekly 'Botsitting'

AI was supposed to free up your time. Instead, British workers are spending nearly a full workday each week doing something researchers now call "botsitting" — the relentless work of managing, correcting, and feeding context to AI tools that don't quite deliver.

Key Findings

• British workers devote approximately 6 hours per week — close to a full workday — to botsitting activities
• Fatigue leads many workers to accept subpar AI results rather than invest time in better outputs
• Companies are building new overhead rather than achieving genuine efficiency gains

Dr. Rebecca Hinds of the Work AI Institute: "Adoption alone doesn't equal transformation. If employees are spending the productivity dividend on botsitting, companies haven't eliminated work — they've created a new layer of overhead."

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