The need for speed | Navigating the pace of work with AI

In this episode, Gretchen and Bre'Ana sit down with Sharee Brockington (http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharee-ai/), an AI implementation consultant who helps organizations adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot, to unpack the tension at the center of AI adoption: speed. From leaders quietly pushing back on "too fast" work, to the 2 a.m. scramble to finish a project when your AI tokens run out, this conversation gets honest about what we're gaining - and what we might be losing - by working at the pace of our tools.

Rather than focusing on prompts, productivity hacks, or the latest AI product news, Coworkers with AI is about making sense of how AI is changing our work - and how we find our way through it, together.

Continue the Conversation: Are you working at the speed of AI because your work demands it - or because of your own need for speed? What are you going to do to change that and create the future you actually want at work? Share your thoughts in the comments. We'd love to hear your perspective.

Resources Mentioned

Harvard Business Review - 8-month study on AI and work intensity (http://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it)

ActivTrak - telemetry data on AI usage and shifting focus time (https://fortune.com/2026/03/13/ai-isnt-reducing-workloads-its-straining-employees-time-spent-emailing-doubled-deep-focus-work-fell/) Open to Work - book referenced on AI, industrialization, and pace of work (https://www.amazon.com/Open-Work-How-Get-Ahead/dp/0063486466)

Fortune - "How AI Has Turned Your Best Work Into the Bare Minimum" (https://www.amazon.com/Open-Work-How-Get-Ahead/dp/0063486466)

Music by Abby Hubbard Available at: http://bit.ly/3SyZ0qD

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