The Hidden Reason AI Is Making Managers More Exhausted

Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · Apr 28, 2026 · 38m

AI is not removing white-collar work as neatly as people hoped or feared.

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In many teams, it is making old roles harder to survive: more review, more exceptions, more hidden cleanup, more burnout.

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This episode looks at the real bottleneck behind that pattern: work design.

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We cover:

- why hiring can slow while managers get busier

- why up skilling is often the wrong frame

- what the Economic Survey 2025–26 suggests about India’s IT and services model

- how to map workflows into agent-only…