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The '19%' problem: what Gartner's productivity surveys actually measured this spring

Two Gartner surveys published in May 2026 reveal a measurement crisis enterprises have not yet named: time saved per AI seat is real, but organisations lack the controls to redeploy that capacity or quality-gate its output before it reaches the P&L. The result — 60–89% of firms seeing zero detectable productivity impact despite widespread adoption — is not an AI problem. It is a governance problem that registers as a measurement problem and gets reported as an AI problem.