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How Is Your Team Spending the Time Saved by Gen AI?

Michał Bednarski

Generative AI is changing how we work. Tools like ChatGPT and Copilot help people write everything from emails to blog posts to plans for internal analyses 40% faster than they used to, according to a 2023 MIT study. The new technologies are transforming technical jobs in particular. A study by MIT Sloan, Microsoft Research, and GitHub determined that gen AI coding tools can cut programming time by 56%, for instance.

A version of this article appeared in the March–April 2025 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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