Researchers from the consultancy firm Betterup LabsIn collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, they coined a new term to describe generalized works of low quality: “Workslop”.

As defined in an article Posted this week in The Harvard Business ReviewWorkslop is “work content generated by artificial intelligence that mask themselves as a good job, but does not have the substance to make a certain task advance significantly”.

Betterup Labs researchers suggest that Workslop could be an explanation for 95% of the organizations that have tried AA but reports Seeing zero return to that investment. Workslop, they write, can be “useless, incomplete or missing crucial context”, which creates only more work for everyone.

“The insidious effect of workslop is that the Downnstream opera bar moves, requesting the receiver to interpret, correct or redo the work,” they write.

The researchers also conducted a Survy ngose Of the 1,150 full -time employees based in the United States, with 40% of interviewees who claim to have received Workslop in the last month.

To have this, the researchers say that leaders in the workplace must “model the weighted use of artificial intelligence that has a purpose and an intention” and “set clear guardrail for your teams around the rules and acceptable use”.