Artificial intelligence promises to supercharge workplace productivity, and the numbers are staggering: employees using AI save 7.5 hours per week according to LSE research, while some organizations report productivity boosts exceeding 50%. Yet beneath this optimistic surface lies a paradox that's forcing business leaders to rethink everything they thought they knew about efficiency. The same technology delivering unprecedented speed gains is simultaneously creating bottlenecks, coordination chaos, and quality problems that threaten to consume the very hours it saves.
