Managers say AI tools add oversight burden and make employee evaluation harder

The survey also reveals shifts in performance assessment: 78% of respondents have changed how they evaluate staff, putting greater weight on prompt‑creation, task delegation to AI, and experimentation with new workflows. At the same time, 46% of managers use AI to inform decisions and 39% use it to draft performance reviews, raising concerns about bias. Research cited from the Luxembourg Institute of Socio‑Economic Research and a 2025 paper notes that LLMs can inherit human biases, including against black male candidates.

Tool proliferation adds another layer of complexity. Fifty‑seven percent of managers say their organizations now have more AI tools in circulation, about 51% say those tools have become more interdependent, and only 29% describe their AI infrastructure as fully optimized and centralized. More than 50% report using more tools than the previous year, and 58% expect to oversee more AI agents than human employees within the next year, while 46% worry about losing control over those agents and 35% fear being held responsible for AI‑driven decisions.