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Efficiency gains achieved by delegating repetitive tasks to AI present an "amazing opportunity" for employees to redirect time into valuable rest and reflection, but they're more likely to keep simulating productivity, an HR thought leader says.

"Let's say you've rolled out Copilot across the whole organisation and it's saving somewhere between two and seven hours per week – that's the data that we're hearing from Microsoft," Gartner HR practice vice-president Aaron McEwan tells HR Daily.

"What's happening with those hours? Unless you have a plan as an organisation to very purposefully redirect that saved time, it's probably going to be filled with meetings and more pointless emails."

It would make sense to mitigate the risk of burnout and fatigue, and energise employees for their high-value tasks, by filling those hours with rest and reflection, he tells HR Daily, "but that's not what we do"...