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title: "AI in the enterprise: productivity gains don't tell the whole story — Marsanne Studio AI watch"
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Opinion · 12 October 2026

# AI in the enterprise: productivity gains don't tell the whole story

Original title, in French: “IA en entreprise : les gains de productivité ne disent pas tout”

**Publication**

Journal du Net (France)

**Author**

Chronique de Jérôme Mendoza-Trussart

**Published on**

12 October 2026 · read in the page metadata

## Summary

The author analyses the hidden effects of generative AI on work in companies, using a fictional example of an eight-person HR department in a company of 600 employees that adopts AI to write job descriptions and training materials. He introduces two notions: "the carried gap", the additional work of checking and correcting that is not included in the expected gains, and "the erasure of a useful load", the gradual disappearance of useful activities such as informal exchanges with employees. The author calls on managers to include this invisible work when assessing transformations, to identify the activities that are fading away, and to decide explicitly what should be maintained or transformed.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Journal du Net →](https://www.journaldunet.com/intelligence-artificielle/1556401-ia-en-entreprise-les-gains-de-productivite-ne-disent-pas-tout/)

## Figures cited

-   600 employees
    
    Headcount of a company used as a fictional example
    
    Hypothetical example illustrating the argument
    
    > « Imaginons une entreprise de 600 salariés dont le service RH compte huit personnes. »
    

## Classification

**Country**

Worldwide scope

**Company size**

All sizes

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Keywords**

human resources, workload, productivity gains, management, organisational transformation

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 Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.