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Tech Disruptions Cost Companies Millions of Dollars in Lost Productivity Annually

Over the next three years, 92% of companies plan to increase their AI investments, according to McKinsey. However, Ivanti's 2025 Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Report shows that just 21% of office workers say AI is significantly improving their productivity.

In the age of AI, digital friction threatens to undermine AI's potential, exacerbate tech problems and have a corrosive effect on employee productivity. Office workers already endure 3.6 tech interruptions and 2.7 security update disruptions per month. This equates to nearly $4 million in lost productivity annually for a company with 2,000 employees.

The number of workplace tools is exploding faster than employees can master them, yet nearly half of office workers say they're left to teach themselves how to use new technology — a source of frustration for employees and inefficiency for the business. For instance, among the 93% of companies that haven't banned AI use, only 40% have provided training, while another 24% plan to offer it soon.

"As organizations accelerate their AI investments, it's clear that realizing AI's promise requires a deeper understanding of the employee experience and impact on productivity. Tools that monitor and analyze how employees interact with technology in real time, like Digital Employee Experience (DEX) solutions, offer data-driven insights – revealing workflow bottlenecks and initiating self-healing actions," said Dennis Kozak, CEO of Ivanti. "By embracing DEX, organizations can take their AI initiatives further and truly empower their workforce, moving from reactive problem-solving to proactive improvement. DEX is more than a strategy for improving the employee experience; it's the engine that embeds AI into company culture, productivity and daily operations."

Additional key findings from the report include:

The newest office perk is employee technology autonomy

A new frontier in workplace benefits is emerging, giving employees greater autonomy over their technology. On average, office workers rate their workplace tools at just a "B-." Tellingly, 65% report that frustrations with these tools can negatively affect their mood and morale. Device choice is also a pressing concern; while 67% note that having a say in the devices they use is important, only 36% currently enjoy this freedom.

The help desk is evolving thanks to AI

AI is transforming help desks, moving them beyond the break-fix cycle that has defined IT support for decades. While most companies have automated basic IT operations such as security patch management (72%) and IT ticket routing (67%), significant opportunities remain. Nearly 40% still haven't automated password resets, missing an easy win that could eliminate countless routine support tickets.

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations must move beyond piecemeal DEX adoption and invest in strategies that deliver measurable improvements to both employee satisfaction and the bottom line.

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AI is becoming the operating system of the enterprise. It acts as an invisible coordination layer that understands intent, connects systems, and executes work across complex SaaS environments. Previously, employees had to click through multiple systems — CRM, ERP, support tools, collaboration platforms — to complete a single task. Now, instead of navigating each application manually, they can simply state what they need to accomplish ...

In 2026, the cost of downtime or an outage is no longer just a technical inconvenience; it's a $600 billion wake up call for global businesses. As our digital ecosystems become  more interconnected, each touchpoint introduces new risks and multiplies the consequences when things go wrong. And the data is clear: aggregate downtime costs  for Global 2,000 companies have surged 50% since 2024, reaching a staggering $600 billion ...

Deloitte found that 74% of enterprises expect to deploy agentic AI solutions in the next 24 months. However, the rush to deployment is outpacing foundational work, though. Only 21% of enterprises have fully formed agent governance models in place. The result? AI agents deployed without guidance or governance begin to function as fragmented islands of complexity ...

Cloud spending is no longer viewed as a passthrough IT expense, but as a strategic financial lever that directly impacts innovation capacity, profitability and enterprise resilience, according to the CFO Cloud Cost Optimization Report from Azul ...

As AI moves from generating responses to performing actions, the need for trust increases exponentially. And as organizations enlist AI agents for increasingly sophisticated business processes, trust is going to be the single most important theme for spurring adoption. What can organizations do to build trustworthy AI agents? ...

I've spent a lot of time in the channel, and one thing I keep coming back to is this: a partner program is only as good as what it looks like in the field. Many programs look great on paper, but when a partner is in front of a customer navigating a complex hybrid environment or trying to make the case for AI-powered observability, the gap between what a vendor promises and what it actually delivers becomes very clear, very fast ...

Enterprises today operate in a real-time environment where uninterrupted access to trusted data has become a baseline expectation for users, applications and automated systems. Traditional DataOps models, built on manual effort and human triage, cannot keep pace with this always active demand. AI agents are emerging as the operational backbone, ensuring consistent data availability, reinforcing trustworthiness and enabling a level of scale that manual processes cannot achieve ...

For decades, trust in the digital workplace rested on familiar signals. We trusted faces on video calls, voices on the phone, and emails that appeared to come from people we knew. These cues felt human and intuitive. They anchored how decisions were made, approvals were granted, and access was authorized. AI-powered deepfakes have quietly broken that model ...

Cloud migration was supposed to be a one-way door. For most enterprises, it turns out it isn't. Cloud data repatriation is a real and growing trend. A new survey ... finds that 89% of organizations plan to expand their on-premises infrastructure footprint over the next two years — and 75% have already moved at least some workloads back from public cloud in the past 24 months. The findings point to a broad rethinking of where data belongs ...

Over the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the software industry. Given their ability to excel at multi-step reasoning, LLMs have helped enterprises streamline workflows and adapt to the unknown. However, employing such models comes with sky-high costs, latency issues, and limited flexibility. In the realm of IT operations, it is generally wiser to employ smaller, domain-specific models instead ...

Tech Disruptions Cost Companies Millions of Dollars in Lost Productivity Annually

Over the next three years, 92% of companies plan to increase their AI investments, according to McKinsey. However, Ivanti's 2025 Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Report shows that just 21% of office workers say AI is significantly improving their productivity.

In the age of AI, digital friction threatens to undermine AI's potential, exacerbate tech problems and have a corrosive effect on employee productivity. Office workers already endure 3.6 tech interruptions and 2.7 security update disruptions per month. This equates to nearly $4 million in lost productivity annually for a company with 2,000 employees.

The number of workplace tools is exploding faster than employees can master them, yet nearly half of office workers say they're left to teach themselves how to use new technology — a source of frustration for employees and inefficiency for the business. For instance, among the 93% of companies that haven't banned AI use, only 40% have provided training, while another 24% plan to offer it soon.

"As organizations accelerate their AI investments, it's clear that realizing AI's promise requires a deeper understanding of the employee experience and impact on productivity. Tools that monitor and analyze how employees interact with technology in real time, like Digital Employee Experience (DEX) solutions, offer data-driven insights – revealing workflow bottlenecks and initiating self-healing actions," said Dennis Kozak, CEO of Ivanti. "By embracing DEX, organizations can take their AI initiatives further and truly empower their workforce, moving from reactive problem-solving to proactive improvement. DEX is more than a strategy for improving the employee experience; it's the engine that embeds AI into company culture, productivity and daily operations."

Additional key findings from the report include:

The newest office perk is employee technology autonomy

A new frontier in workplace benefits is emerging, giving employees greater autonomy over their technology. On average, office workers rate their workplace tools at just a "B-." Tellingly, 65% report that frustrations with these tools can negatively affect their mood and morale. Device choice is also a pressing concern; while 67% note that having a say in the devices they use is important, only 36% currently enjoy this freedom.

The help desk is evolving thanks to AI

AI is transforming help desks, moving them beyond the break-fix cycle that has defined IT support for decades. While most companies have automated basic IT operations such as security patch management (72%) and IT ticket routing (67%), significant opportunities remain. Nearly 40% still haven't automated password resets, missing an easy win that could eliminate countless routine support tickets.

As AI adoption accelerates, organizations must move beyond piecemeal DEX adoption and invest in strategies that deliver measurable improvements to both employee satisfaction and the bottom line.

The Latest

AI is becoming the operating system of the enterprise. It acts as an invisible coordination layer that understands intent, connects systems, and executes work across complex SaaS environments. Previously, employees had to click through multiple systems — CRM, ERP, support tools, collaboration platforms — to complete a single task. Now, instead of navigating each application manually, they can simply state what they need to accomplish ...

In 2026, the cost of downtime or an outage is no longer just a technical inconvenience; it's a $600 billion wake up call for global businesses. As our digital ecosystems become  more interconnected, each touchpoint introduces new risks and multiplies the consequences when things go wrong. And the data is clear: aggregate downtime costs  for Global 2,000 companies have surged 50% since 2024, reaching a staggering $600 billion ...

Deloitte found that 74% of enterprises expect to deploy agentic AI solutions in the next 24 months. However, the rush to deployment is outpacing foundational work, though. Only 21% of enterprises have fully formed agent governance models in place. The result? AI agents deployed without guidance or governance begin to function as fragmented islands of complexity ...

Cloud spending is no longer viewed as a passthrough IT expense, but as a strategic financial lever that directly impacts innovation capacity, profitability and enterprise resilience, according to the CFO Cloud Cost Optimization Report from Azul ...

As AI moves from generating responses to performing actions, the need for trust increases exponentially. And as organizations enlist AI agents for increasingly sophisticated business processes, trust is going to be the single most important theme for spurring adoption. What can organizations do to build trustworthy AI agents? ...

I've spent a lot of time in the channel, and one thing I keep coming back to is this: a partner program is only as good as what it looks like in the field. Many programs look great on paper, but when a partner is in front of a customer navigating a complex hybrid environment or trying to make the case for AI-powered observability, the gap between what a vendor promises and what it actually delivers becomes very clear, very fast ...

Enterprises today operate in a real-time environment where uninterrupted access to trusted data has become a baseline expectation for users, applications and automated systems. Traditional DataOps models, built on manual effort and human triage, cannot keep pace with this always active demand. AI agents are emerging as the operational backbone, ensuring consistent data availability, reinforcing trustworthiness and enabling a level of scale that manual processes cannot achieve ...

For decades, trust in the digital workplace rested on familiar signals. We trusted faces on video calls, voices on the phone, and emails that appeared to come from people we knew. These cues felt human and intuitive. They anchored how decisions were made, approvals were granted, and access was authorized. AI-powered deepfakes have quietly broken that model ...

Cloud migration was supposed to be a one-way door. For most enterprises, it turns out it isn't. Cloud data repatriation is a real and growing trend. A new survey ... finds that 89% of organizations plan to expand their on-premises infrastructure footprint over the next two years — and 75% have already moved at least some workloads back from public cloud in the past 24 months. The findings point to a broad rethinking of where data belongs ...

Over the past few years, large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the software industry. Given their ability to excel at multi-step reasoning, LLMs have helped enterprises streamline workflows and adapt to the unknown. However, employing such models comes with sky-high costs, latency issues, and limited flexibility. In the realm of IT operations, it is generally wiser to employ smaller, domain-specific models instead ...