Task baseline
Completion time before adoption establishes the starting operating record.
Workforce Economics Collection
Reported time savings do not establish released capacity, because work removed, output sustained, quality retained, financial-plan movement, and payroll change each require separate evidence across the operating record.
Practice: Labor Cost Optimization
Reported time saved begins as a worker-level observation and remains separate from evidence that work disappeared from the operating base. The record distinguishes faster task completion from work actually removed while preserving output and quality across the same demand period.
Released capacity appears later in the evidence chain, after remaining demand is absorbed or a role requirement changes. A revised financial plan and subsequent payroll movement then establish whether reported productivity reached the workforce cost base.
Productivity evidence
33%
One hour or less
This share of recent users reported saving no more than one hour in the prior week.
5.4%
Average work time saved
Equivalent to 2.2 hours in a 40-hour week among recent generative-AI users.
Time savings were self-reported through a counterfactual survey question and do not establish work elimination, released capacity, a financial-plan change, or payroll removal. BIS Working Paper No. 1325, published January 23, 2026, used matched EIBIS and ORBIS data covering more than 12,000 European non-financial firms across pooled observations from 2019 to 2024. AI adoption was associated with 4% higher labor productivity and no adverse short-run firm-level employment effect in that sample; longer-run effects remain uncertain.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, The Impact of Generative AI on Work Productivity, published February 27, 2025. Nationally representative U.S. worker surveys conducted in August and November 2024. The opening values cover workers who used generative AI in the previous week. Among those users, 33% reported saving one hour or less; average reported time savings equaled 5.4% of work hours, equivalent to 2.2 hours in a 40-hour week.
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These four records identify evidence locations rather than productivity thresholds, savings estimates, or company results.
City Shift Finance analytical record set informed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis source above. No company result is simulated.
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