I think the big problem is that if you find a way to automate your work or make it more efficient, your reward is more likely to be more work at the same pay, or even being replaced with AI tools and a new hire. You are incentivized to lie about it and pretend you are working.

I have an anecdote of an opposite trend -- maybe not common, but I thought perhaps interesting.

I recently interacted with a CEO and all of his (long) feedback on a proposal was fully chatGPT generated responses to my questions. While arguably they could produce a higher quality response by sitting down and working (because I know I could have), the quality of the interaction was acceptable and it contained one or two novel and applicable ideas.

So I'm looking at the graphics design work that gets done at the company, and while I can certainly see the path to doing it 100% with AI, that would require a significant amount of capital to develop reliably. I could just put that money in the bank, and pay the current team indefinitely off the interest. So their jobs are quite safe for now!

On the other hand, one thing I've considered doing is hiring someone to be my boss. I own the company, and am good at engineering, but that doesn't magically make me also good at managing my time and that of other staff. I'm looking at the responses I got from that other CEO via ChatGPT, and suspect that it would be an acceptable tool in my case. So I am literally considering 'hiring' ChatGPT as an executive in my company -- although obviously I have to take what it over-confidently says with a grain of salt, but that's consistently been a recurring problem with human executives I've worked with too.

Proposed incentives could include shorter workdays, making the trade-off beneficial for both employees and the organization.

Oh, how nice it must be to be so naive. Just as every other technological advancement that increases worker productivity has not led to the worker working less (only producing more in the same time, for no added benefit to the worker), this won't benefit the worker either. It's nice to say you could make the workday shorter, but your saying so makes it hurt all the more when you don't make it shorter because more wealth can be stolen by keeping it the same.

On a similar note, I wouldn't disclose my use to my employer for the reason that they'll see increased productivity and do what always happens to more productive employees: punish them with more work. The more productive you are the more work you're given to do. Hard work is not rewarded, it's punished--with more work.

The phrase "boost global labor productivity" always disgusts me when it's just a thin veil over "quicken wealth extraction through exploitation".