Workshop: When AI Creates Extra Work

Shaping the use of AI within a team in a considered way

Emails and meeting minutes are increasingly vague, leaving much unclear when read: what exactly are the key points of the text? What is expected of you? Reports and analyses are now sometimes so lengthy that they are read less and less often. Many people are currently finding that, whilst AI produces texts quickly and accurately, this does not reduce the amount of work; rather, it simply shifts the burden onto the recipients of the AI-generated work if the quality is not checked. This is known as „workslop“.

In this online workshop, you will learn how to introduce rules and rituals to prevent ‘workslop’. We will also explore the cultural patterns and incentives that encourage ‘workslop’ in collaborative work, and develop approaches to reshape them.

What we’ll be discussing:

• Recognising the ‘workslop’ – how to spot in your day-to-day life when work ends up being done by others, and what cost this has for the team.

• Find out about useful tips and agreements to help reduce work-related stress.

• Understanding motivations – reflecting, both individually and as a group, on which patterns and incentive structures within the organisation foster a ‘workshop’ culture, and what potential for development can be derived from them.

In this lab, we only touch on technical and legal issues in passing.

Further AI workshops will follow, with the next one taking place on 13 January 2027, when we will be hosting an online ‘future-thinking’ workshop exploring how you and your organisation intend to operate and conduct business in the future in light of the changes brought about by AI.

• Thursday, 10 December 2026, 4 pm to 8 pm
• online

It is important to us that our labs are accessible to everyone, and at the same time, it is important to us that the lab instructors receive appropriate remuneration. SOCIUS does not earn any money from the labs. Your contribution goes directly to the instructors.

We ask for a contribution of your choice between €20.00 and €150.00.

The service is exempt from VAT pursuant to Section 4 No. 22 a).

"Bringing people into contact with their inner world and with others is the key to successful cooperation and social co-determination."

Cong is an innovation coach, facilitator, organisational developer and conflict mediator. After studying design, I discovered my passion for helping people realise their creative potential and grow as a result. Today, I support teams and organisations in developing innovation-friendly, vibrant and human cultures and processes. I help them to redesign both their collaboration and their value creation. I draw on my experience from various areas such as New Work, conflict mediation, design thinking and mindfulness and teach these topics at various universities (including Witten/Herdecke University, Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam and SMI Steinbeis).

One of his passions is meaningful interaction in the virtual world.