Your Employees Are Already Using AI at Work

Your employees are already using AI at work.

The question isn't whether it's happening. Research shows more than half of your workforce would use AI tools without authorisation if they found them useful (Beauchene et al., 2025).

The question is whether they have any guidance when they do.

This is the governance gap most organisations aren't talking about. The AI strategy conversation is happening in the boardroom. The AI usage is happening everywhere else, right now, with whatever tools people can access.

When those two things aren't connected by clear policies, training, and communication, the organisation carries all the risk of AI adoption with very little of the upside.

We've seen this pattern repeatedly. By the time leadership agrees on an AI strategy, there's already a shadow AI ecosystem inside the business. Unsanctioned tools. Inconsistent practices. Data being processed through systems nobody in IT or legal has reviewed.

The answer isn't to prohibit. Prohibition doesn't work and never has. People will find ways to use tools that make their work easier.

The answer is to govern intelligently. Set clear expectations. Build the policies before the problem compounds.

If you don't know what AI your people are using right now, that's the first thing worth finding out.