“Reported organizational adoption of AI grew sharply in Q2 2026. Forty-seven percent of U.S. employees now say their organization has integrated AI tools to improve productivity, efficiency or quality, up from 41% in the last quarter…

The AI applications that employees use most often are not the ones most strongly associated with productivity improvements.

The highest productivity ratings come from employees using AI for coding assistance and automation or process automation. More than three-fourths of workers who use AI in each of these ways (77%) say AI has had an extremely or somewhat positive effect on their productivity. The ratings are nearly as high among employees using AI for presentation or slide deck creation (76%) and for data science or analytics (75%).

Employees who use AI for general applications also provide positive ratings, but at lower levels. Sixty-eight percent of employees who use AI for writing and editing say it has improved their productivity, as do 65% of those using it for search or research.”

From Gallup.