AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
THE SO WHAT
If over half of managers say AI makes performance evaluation harder, the bottleneck has shifted from doing the work to judging its quality. Before scaling AI use, leaders need explicit standards for what “good” looks like and instrumentation that separates human and machine contribution.
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