Organizational Development Consultant Bausch Says AI Compresses Work Density: Saved Time Converted to Higher Output Demands
In an interview with the t3n podcast, German organizational development consultant David Bausch acknowledged that while he used to frequently claim AI creates free time, conversations with people have revealed this narrative is crumbling: time saved by automation is being converted by management into higher output expectations, causing work density to rise rather than fall.
In a podcast interview with the German tech media outlet t3n, organizational development consultant David Bausch admitted that for a long time he had spoken in lectures and on podcasts about how AI creates free space by automating daily tasks, and confessed that he had repeated this claim almost without reflection. However, when he talks to people today, he finds this narrative crumbling: people no longer have more time to devote to the creative parts of their work, but are instead required to produce more economic results.