GenAI at Work

7-wave evidence

Occupation explorer

Across all 7 of 7 audited waves, adoption and assisted working time align more tightly across occupations than across industries.

Current structure

Adoption and assisted time move together across occupations.

2026-Q2 · each point is a major RPS occupation group.

Each point is one subgroup. Labels identify groups with the highest values on either axis; exact values are available in the table below.
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Values plotted above, ordered by work adoption (%).
GroupWork adoption (%)Work hours assisted (%)
Computer and Mathematical Occupations77.6%15.1%
Management Occupations71.9%12.5%
Business and Financial Operations Occupations60.3%8.4%
Educational Instruction and Library Occupations56.3%5.1%
Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations54.4%10.1%
Community and Social Service Occupations53.8%4.6%
Legal Occupations53.3%5.1%
Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations51.1%6.6%
Architecture and Engineering Occupations49.9%5.6%
Sales and Related Occupations45.7%7.2%
Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations44.7%3.8%
Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations38.2%4.9%
Production Occupations37.9%4.6%
Office and Administrative Support Occupations36.9%5.2%
Construction and Extraction Occupations33.9%3.6%
Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations31.7%4.2%
Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations29.1%3.2%
Transportation and Material Moving Occupations29.0%3.1%
Healthcare Support Occupations24.5%3.9%
Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations21.6%0.8%
Personal Care and Service Occupations20.8%1.9%
Protective Service Occupations15.6%1.2%

Across waves

Adoption persists and tracks reported savings more consistently.

Rank-stability comparisons20/21

Adoption exceeds assisted-hours persistence

Savings regressions7/7

Waves where adoption has the higher univariate R²

Leave-one-out checks154

Checks where adoption has the higher univariate R²

Occupation rank persistence: median Spearman correlation across quarter pairs
Adoption0.79
Assisted hours0.56
Reported savings0.64
Quarter-by-quarter occupation diagnostics
Unweighted cross-occupation descriptive diagnostics by quarter. A = adoption, H = assisted hours, S = reported savings.
QuarterCorr(A, H)R²(S ~ A)R²(S ~ H)
2024-Q40.7980.8580.574
2025-Q10.7620.8170.592
2025-Q20.8400.8570.624
2025-Q30.8130.7070.366
2025-Q40.8980.9230.862
2026-Q10.7110.7660.682
2026-Q20.8860.7930.663

These aggregate occupation patterns summarize major task bundles. Individual worker responses, employer policies, and causal productivity effects require microdata or separate identification.