80 Percent of Engineers Get a 3 Percent AI Productivity Gain. The Top 20 Percent Get 55.
McKinsey found most engineers gain about 3 percent from AI while the top fifth gain 55 percent. A company-level average describes almost nobody in the building.
Research, analysis, and commentary on workforce intelligence, AI adoption, and human capital strategy from the Levos AI team.
80 Percent of Engineers Get a 3 Percent AI Productivity Gain. The Top 20 Percent Get 55.
McKinsey found most engineers gain about 3 percent from AI while the top fifth gain 55 percent. A company-level average describes almost nobody in the building.
Zero of 150 Leaders Achieved AI Cost Reduction. Here Is Why.
A study of 150 leaders found no organization achieved AI cost reduction. Two-thirds said costs rose. Only 43 percent could say where AI was being used.
The Lattice Alternative for Teams Measuring AI Workforce ROI
Lattice runs the performance cycle well. When the question becomes what AI returns across the workforce, here is where a team outgrows it and what sits above.
The AI Proof Gap
78 percent of executives could not pass an independent AI governance audit in 90 days. The problem is not policy. It is numbers no one can stand behind.
Workforce Intelligence vs People Analytics: Why the Category Is Splitting in 2026
People analytics reports what HR already knows. Workforce intelligence measures what work actually shows. Here is why the category is splitting in 2026.
The Manager Bottleneck: AI Doubled the Output. The Review Layer Did Not Move.
AI doubled the rate of reviewable work and the management layer has not moved. Here is why the workforce stack cannot see the bottleneck before it surfaces.