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Title: New Report Reveals Significant Gap Between Corporate AI Effectiveness and Expectations

Switzerland, 24th Jun 2026 — Kristian Kabashi, the technology executive and analyst who developed The Blank Collar transformation practice for the intelligence age, today announced the publication of a new field report, The State of AI at Work. The report reveals a significant gap between corporate expectations of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace versus actual results. The report shows that while AI adoption is widespread, 87% of workers use AI at the beginner level. Just 13% use AI for meaningful work.According to Kabashi, “Your company bought AI, but nobody changed. At some level, we’ve seen this with every major technology shift over the years, but in the case of AI, these results are quite disappointing. The technology has such vast promise, but, in my view, it’s not being used the right way.”The Zurich-based Kabashi comes to his perspective on AI after spending two decades as a creative, a builder, and a transformer. He served in senior executive roles in global enterprises such as Dentsu and the Havas agency, as well as being the founder of Cybee.ai and the AI company Numarics, which was acquired in 2024.The Blank Collar has been Kabashi’s philosophical home since 2018. The Blank Collar’s slogan is, "Work is for bots. Life is for humans." It is the successor to the idea of white-collar employment. While blue collars built the industrial age, and white collars led the way in the information age, blank collars will build the intelligence age—directing AI agents instead of doing the routine work themselves.The problem, as Kabashi sees it, is that so few workers move past the experimenter line into work that pays for itself. What blocks proficiency is not prompting. “People can lea...

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