{
  "id": 17177345,
  "title": "Generative AI reduces working hours for government staff, survey finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/generative-ai-reduces-working-hours-for-government-staff-survey-finds",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-30T03:54:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Japan Times",
    "slug": "japan-times",
    "url": "https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/10/30/japan/society/bureaucrats-working-hours-ai/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A new survey reveals that government employees have been able to reduce their working hours by an average of 110 minutes per week using the Gennai generative artificial intelligence platform. The survey, conducted in August and September, polled 6,439 people working at various ministries and agencies. Over half of the respondents reported cutting their work hours by at least one hour weekly. Specific reductions ranged from one to three hours (35.1%), three to five hours (10.9%), five to 10 hours (5.2%), and 10 hours or more (3.2%). Meanwhile, 34.6% of respondents found their working hours unchanged. Many cited benefits such as \"quickly creating a rough draft,\" \"finding information from large volumes of documents,\" or \"catching up on technical knowledge faster.\" The platform is utilized by 10.4% of respondents daily, 11% three to four times a week, and 26.4% once or twice weekly, with 31.2% rarely using or never using it. Gennai, developed by the Digital Agency, now includes an AI agent function that can perform multiple tasks simultaneously.",
  "summary": "Over 50% of the respondents said they were able to reduce working hours by at least one hour per week.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}