For many people in many organizations, their measurable output is words - words in emails, in reports, in presentations. We use words as proxy for many things: the number of words is an indicator of effort, the quality of the words is an indicator of intelligence, the degree to which the words are error-free is an indicator of care.
[...] But now every employee with Copilot can produce work that checks all the boxes of a formal report without necessarily representing underlying effort.
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