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AI Was Supposed to Replace Your Work. So Why Are You More Exhausted Than Ever?

If automation tools promised efficiency but delivered overload, this explains what’s really happening.

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Glenda Carnate
February 27, 2026

Read time: 2.5 minutes

The rollout had significant efficiency gains: an AI note taker, an AI for email drafts, and an AI for analytics. Meetings would be shorter. Tasks would cease to exist.

Several weeks later, the inbox is fuller than ever. Expectations have increased. Deliverables have increased twofold. The workload has not lessened; it has just increased in speed.

"I can automate my job with AI."
"Why am I now busier than ever?"

Automation never takes away... it only adds to the workload.

How has AI caused you to have more work?

1. When you use AI, you will be expected to increase your productivity.

2. Because AI helps to create products and services, you will be expected to produce more of those products and services.

3. With AI’s ability to provide rapid feedback from multiple sources, you will be expected to respond to feedback much more quickly.

4. AI-created work will still require your supervisor or managers to review, verify and/or fix that work.

5. If you automate routine responsibilities, you have now simply inherited the more complex responsibilities that are considered “higher value.”

AI has not taken your job... it has simply redeveloped it.

💡Key Takeaway: 

Automated processes do not reduce stress... however, they speed up processes while increasing the standard of performance.

At this time, the new primary areas of expertise include establishing limits around automation rather than using it.

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