Opinion ·
What does it cost us, what AI saves us?
Original title, in French: “Que nous coûte ce que l'IA nous fait gagner ?”
- Publication
- Journal du Net (France)
- Author
- Chronique de Thibault Coiffier
- Published on
- 15 October 2026 · read in the page metadata
Summary
Drawing on the Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva (2026), the author analyses the gap between employees' widespread adoption of generative AI and the actual benefits for the organisation. According to the study, 73% of employees use generative AI at work, 75% say they work faster and 70% believe they produce better-quality work. However, the article stresses that these individual gains do not automatically translate into collective performance: part of the effort saved shifts to checking and decision-making, creating a "managerial debt", as 58% of managers say they have to check AI-assisted output more. The author distinguishes the widespread use of AI, which is easy to observe, from genuine scaling, which requires the organisation to actually do better than before.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
Read the article on Journal du Net →Figures cited
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73 %
share of employees who say they use generative AI at work
employees surveyed, Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva, 2026
« 73 % des salariés interrogés[1] déclarent utiliser l’IA générative au travail. »
Source: Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva sur les impacts de l'IA générative sur l'expérience collaborateur, 2026
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75 %
share of employees who say AI makes them faster
employees surveyed, Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva, 2026
« 75 % disent gagner en rapidité »
Source: Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva sur les impacts de l'IA générative sur l'expérience collaborateur, 2026
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70 %
share of employees who believe they produce better-quality work with AI
employees surveyed, Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva, 2026
« 70 % estiment produire un travail de meilleure qualité »
Source: Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva sur les impacts de l'IA générative sur l'expérience collaborateur, 2026
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58 %
share of managers who say they have to check AI-assisted output more
managers surveyed, Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva, 2026
« 58 % déclarent devoir davantage challenger ou vérifier les productions réalisées avec l’aide de l’IA. »
Source: Observatoire Greenworking x Ipsos bva sur les impacts de l'IA générative sur l'expérience collaborateur, 2026
Classification
- Country
- —
- Company size
- All sizes
- Industries
- All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Ipsos BVA (study author), Greenworking (study author)
- Keywords
- management, generative ai adoption, productivity, scaling, quality control, managerial debt
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.