Research scientists have just issued a warning, of sorts, about a stealthy new threat to productivity across corporate America: Employees are creating and sharing time-wasting and reckless “workslop.”

The official description of workslop, per researchers from Stanford’s Social Media Lab and BetterUp, an online coaching platform, is “AI-generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task.”

But, let’s be honest, most office workers won’t need a definition. We’ve all encountered examples of workslop in the wild. It’s the memo jammed with stuffy words like “underscore” and “commendable” that leaves you scratching your head, or the report littered with em-dashes that, upon a close read, feels hollow.

It’s one thing to get a c

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