A wide office floor where one person reads at a desk while dozens of screens around them keep filling with new work for them to address.Agents at Anthropic now log six hours for every human hour, and reading their output would eat half a week. The job is to create judgement systems for what deserves attention.On October 16, four researchers at Anthropic published How employment is changing at Anthropic, a study of how its own agents changed the work.Anthropic is one of the companies at the front of this shift, running its own work on the models it builds, so the study is an early read on where other companies are heading.And honestly, it looks like previous studies in new clothing as I have linked below, just accelerated. Read on.Agents work more than humans. Not a surprise.Here are the early results: By August 2026, agents directed by employees were logging six hours for every hour...