👋 Hey Community!
Do you think you could give AI up at work?
Most people say yes. When Atlassian's Teamwork Lab surveyed over 1,000 knowledge workers, 57% said they could maintain their performance just fine without it. So we put it to the test.
We ran an AI Play/Pause experiment with 123 Atlassians — one workday using AI to its maximum, one workday without it entirely. On the no-AI day, 82% felt the urge to use it anyway. Nearly 1 in 4 reached for AI without thinking.
The deeper AI is woven into how a team works, the harder it is to give up. But reliance isn’t necessarily a problem. What can be a risk is reliance without judgment. And the Pause day actually helped people build that: 92% said they felt more confident about when not to use AI. As one participant put it: "It reminded me to trust my own expertise more."
📖 Read through the full research, and if you want to try it with your team, run this AI Play/Pause Day play.
How about you - has AI become so integrated into your workflows that you’d not be able to give it up? Has anyone ever tried a no-AI day? Tell us in the comments! 👇
