The AI Reality Check
The State
of Digital Adoption 2026
Findings from 3,750 enterprise executives and workers, measuring what’s actually happening when people try to work with AI.

Your team is losing 51 full workdays a year, not to distraction, but to the tools you bought to help them.

One full working day, every week, absorbed by tool friction. That’s not a productivity gap. That’s a structural problem

There’s a gap between what leadership sees and what employees actually experience. Every strategy built on the wrong side of that gap costs you more than you think.

The right support at the right moment doesn’t just help, it compounds.