TechCrunch Reports Managers Say AI Has Made Their Jobs Harder, Not Easier, in a New Survey

A Nielsen survey for Monday.com of 1,700 senior managers finds more reviewing, more tools and worries about AI agents acting alone.

A new survey covered by TechCrunch on October 21, 2026 says AI is creating extra work for the managers who oversee it. Nielsen ran the survey for Monday.com, a work-management company, and asked 1,700 directors and senior managers in seven countries. The article does not give the dates of the survey.

More than half of the leaders said judging employees' work has become harder, because polished AI-assisted output makes it hard to see who did what. Nearly half said they spend more time reviewing and guiding their teams' output. In the survey, 57% said their organizations now use more tools than before, and only 29% called their AI setup fully optimized and centralized.

Managers also said they want people involved. 58% expect to oversee more AI agents than human employees within a year, 46% worry about losing control of what agents do, and 35% fear being blamed for decisions made by AI. Monday.com's Michal Miller Levi told TechCrunch managers "don't want their agents to be fully autonomous." Note that the survey was commissioned by a company that sells work-management software.