---
id: "action-redesign-workflows"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Redesign."]
tags: ["operations", "job-design"]
related: ["concept-workflow-redesign", "framework-aware", "entity-moderna", "claim-redesign-over-deployment"]
action: "Collaborate with workers to restructure tasks, balancing AI automation with human augmentation."
outcome: "Increases efficiency while ensuring workers feel ownership, inclusion, and motivation."
speakers: ["Erik Hermann", "Stefano Puntoni", "Carey K. Morewedge"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-sig-52-genai-threatening-to-workers"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/03/why-gen-ai-feels-so-threatening-to-workers"
sourceTitle: "Why Gen AI Feels So Threatening to Workers"
---
# Redesign Workflows Collaboratively

**Action:** Do not just plug AI into existing processes. Work directly with employees to map out tasks and deliberately divide labor: assign **repetitive, data-heavy** tasks to AI, and reserve tasks requiring **empathy, creativity, and ethical judgment** for humans (see [[entity-moderna-d9]] and [[concept-workflow-redesign]]).

**Outcome:** Increases efficiency while ensuring workers feel ownership, inclusion, and motivation.

This is the **Redesign** step of [[framework-aware]], and it is the practice behind the outcome data in [[claim-redesign-over-deployment]].


## Related across articles
- [[action-cocreate-strategies]]
- [[concept-workflow-redesign]]