"That's the term data scientists from Stanford's Social Media Lab and BetterUp, an online coaching platform, recently coined to describe "AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task." It's the workplace equivalent of the cutesy videos and obviously fake photos filling up your social feeds, which have become known as AI "slop.""
"According to the researchers, receiving "workslop" routinely created extra work for employees, who found themselves redoing reports clearly written by AI, or holding a meeting to discuss a mystifying memo. It also caused employees to question their peers' intelligence and the value of AI technology.After surveying full-time employees at 1,150 companies, the researchers found that workslop is flowing in all directions inside firms."
Corporate America is experiencing widespread workslop, defined by data scientists at Stanford's Social Media Lab and BetterUp as AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work but lacks substance to advance tasks. Common examples include memos packed with pompous vocabulary and hollow reports stitched with em-dashes. Receiving workslop often forces employees to redo AI-written documents or convene meetings to clarify confusing memos, increasing workload and eroding trust in colleagues and AI. The phenomenon flows in all directions—mostly laterally among peers but also between managers and reports—and 40% of surveyed full-time employees reported receiving workslop in the past month.
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