--- title: "AI at work: usage up, training held back by lack of time — Marsanne Studio AI watch" description: "A Workera study shows that 67.8% of employees at large US companies use AI every week, but training lacks time." url: "https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch/ai-at-work-usage-up-training-held-back-by-lack-of-1b9098/" lang: "en" --- [Marsanne Studio](https://marsanne.studio/en/) [← Back to home](https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch) [← The AI watch](https://marsanne.studio/en/ai-watch) Data study · 25 September 2026 # AI at work: usage up, training held back by lack of time Original title, in French: “IA au travail : usage en hausse, formation freinée par le temps” **Publication** Brief IA (France) **Author** [Tom Levy](https://www.briefia.fr/auteur/tom-levy) **Published on** 25 September 2026 · read in the page structured data ## Summary According to a Workera survey conducted in July 2026 among 1,000 employees of US companies with 5,000 or more staff, use of AI tools is rising sharply: 67.8% of employees use them at least a few days a week, up from 39.9% a year earlier. However, training remains held back by lack of time: 56.4% have no dedicated slot and 84.3% spend five hours or less a week on it. Employees remain confident in their own skills relative to AI. Workera, which runs a continuous skills assessment tool called Ambient, urges executives to set aside training time and to define AI readiness standards. Summary based on the full text of the article. [Read the article on Brief IA →](https://www.briefia.fr/article/ia-au-travail-usage-en-hausse-formation-freinee-par-le-temps) ## Figures cited - 67.8 % employees using AI tools several times a week employees of US companies with 5,000 or more staff, 2026 > « 67,8 % des employés de grandes entreprises américaines utilisent des outils d’IA au moins quelques jours par semaine » Source: Workera - 39.9 % employees using AI tools several times a week, previous year US employees, 2025 > « contre 39,9 % un an plus tôt » Source: Workera - 56.4 % employees with no dedicated training slot US employees, 2026 > « 56,4 % des employés n’ont aucun créneau dédié sur leurs heures de travail » Source: Workera - 84.3 % employees spending five hours or less a week on training US employees, 2026 > « 84,3 % consacrent cinq heures ou moins par semaine à la formation » Source: Workera - 76.6 % employees who believe they do their job better than AI US employees, 2026 > « 76,6 % estiment faire leur travail mieux que l’IA » Source: Workera - 9.5 % employees who believe an AI agent could perform more than half of their tasks US employees, 2026 > « Seuls 9,5 % considèrent qu’un agent d’IA pourrait réaliser aujourd’hui plus de la moitié de leurs tâches efficacement. » Source: Workera - 80 % companies considering themselves ready for a future with AI by 2026 US companies, report published on 23 September 2026 > « Workera rapporte que 80 % des entreprises se considèrent plus susceptibles d’être prêtes pour un futur avec l’IA d’ici 2026, contre 67 % l’an dernier » Source: Workera - 46.5 % employees using tools not provided by their employer to develop their skills US employees, 2026 > « 46,5 % des employés déclarent avoir utilisé des outils non fournis par l’employeur pour développer leurs compétences » Source: Workera ## Classification **Country** United States **Company size** Large companies **Industries** All industries, or industry not specified **Companies** Gemini (cited), Claude (cited), ChatGPT (cited), Workera (study author) **Keywords** employee training, AI adoption, large companies, skills assessment, ChatGPT Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Brief IA and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.