---
id: "lit-trust-resilience"
type: "adjacent-literature"
source_timestamps: ["Enrichment Overlay — Adjacent Literature §6"]
tags: ["trust", "organizational-resilience", "engagement"]
related: ["claim-mindset-decline", "entity-edelman"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-38-ai-workslop"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/01/why-people-create-ai-workslop-and-how-to-stop-it"
sourceTitle: "Why People Create AI “Workslop”—and How to Stop It"
---
# Trust & Organizational Resilience

**Trust & Organizational Resilience.** The [[entity-edelman|Edelman Trust Barometer]] and other engagement studies link declining trust to burnout, disengagement, and lower-quality collaboration. Workslop can be framed within this broader narrative: AI is introduced into already-strained, low-trust environments, amplifying existing problems.

Provides the macro backdrop for [[claim-mindset-decline]] and explains why the same AI tools produce workslop in some organizations but not others.