Bengaluru: Artificial intelligence has become a staple in offices around the world, but according to Atlassian's 2025 AI Collaboration Index, the majority of companies are unable to translate early hype into meaningful business outcomes.The study covers 180 Fortune 1,000 executives and 12,000 knowledge workers from six countries, showing that daily AI usage has almost doubled over the past year. Employees reported a 33% increase in productivity and saving 1.3 hours a day, while 96% of organizations said they had little or no improvement in efficiency, innovation, or quality of work. Atlassian warned that personal productivity lockdowns are risky in backfiling, and estimated that Fortune 500 companies could confiscate $98 billion a year by chasing time savings rather than embedding AI into their coordination systems.“The team is basically run the same way, with just a few extra bells and whistles,” a Fortune 500 executive told researchers.Only 4% of companies report transformative profits from AI. These outliers distinguish themselves by connecting AI to a company-wide knowledge base, setting up an integrated system that allows coordination between teams, and treating AI as an active participant in the workflow. Companies focused on AI-enabled coordination were nearly twice as likely to report significant efficiency gains, despite narrowly targeting task automation.India stood out as a fast mobile market. 77% of Indian knowledge workers currently use AI every day, up from 46% last year, but 59% in the US, 54% in Germany and less than half in France and Australia. Overall, 98% of Indian respondents use AI every week. Indian experts report that they save 112 minutes a day and are productive at around 47% on average, well above the global average.Importantly, 86% of Indian workers said their leaders are encouraging AI experiments, compared to 75% in the US and 66% in France. Instead of abandoning AI when results are lacking, the Indian teams either refine the prompt (30%) or provided a better example (33%) to improve the results. Still, 91% say AI remains constrained by a lack of access to appropriate data.The report also flags risk. More than a third of executives say AI wasted time or misunderstood the team, but admitted that workers relied on unauthorized tools that exacerbate data silos and create security exposures. Executives remain bullish, but by 2030, only a third of the work will be fully done by humans, with AI nearly double the number of innovative ideas pursued.
