Workslop Tax Self-Diagnostic

Q1How many people on your team use AI at work, and what does an hour of their time cost?

How many people on your team use AI at work? What does an hour of their time cost, fully loaded? USD Assumption: USD 85.60 — a fully loaded US management rate. Editable. Adjust up for finance, technology or executive populations, or down for a broader one.

Q2When an AI-assisted proposal is signed off in your group, where does the trade-off logic behind it live?

Entirely in the signer's head, unwritten Scattered through informal threads and email Written down explicitly, and reviewable

Q3When polished AI output turns out to be wrong, what happens to it?

Whoever caught it quietly redoes the work It goes back to the author with informal feedback It is screened against explicit boundary rules before sign-off

Q4If an AI-assisted decision failed tomorrow, is there a named human who could defend the specific trade-off rules behind it?

No — it would land on the department or the tool Yes, but they would reconstruct their reasoning after the fact Yes — and they have been tested on those rules under challenge

Q5Is there an explicit threshold for which AI-assisted decisions must come to you before they are actioned?

No — it depends on who is involved An informal understanding, not written down Yes, written and known by the people it applies to

Q6When someone overrides an AI recommendation, is that override recorded anywhere you could retrieve later?

No record at all Somewhere, but it would take a search to find Yes — recorded in a place we could produce on request

Q7Could you list today the consequential decisions in your group that AI already influences?

No — we would have to go and find out Roughly, from memory Yes — it is written down and current

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