90% of Executives Say AI Hasn't Boosted Productivity — Even After the Layoffs

A survey finding that nine in ten executives report no measurable productivity gain from AI collides awkwardly with the layoffs those same companies justified in AI's name.

The productivity paradox has a number now. Roughly 90% of executives say AI has not boosted their firm's productivity, according to a survey highlighted by @Nefarious_Trey. That figure is remarkable not because AI is useless — individual workflows clearly benefit — but because the gains are not showing up in the aggregate numbers that executives actually track. The gap between anecdotal wins and measurable firm-level output is the defining tension of enterprise AI adoption.

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