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type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "BetterUp Labs"
aliases: ["BetterUp"]
source_timestamps: ["§ The Workslop Pressure Cooker", "§ Why People Create Workslop"]
tags: ["research-organization"]
related: ["claim-mindset-decline", "entity-stanford-social-media-lab", "entity-alexi-robichaux", "entity-kate-niederhoffer"]
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"
---
# BetterUp Labs

**BetterUp Labs** is the research arm of BetterUp — an online coaching and people-development platform — which collaborated with the [[entity-stanford-social-media-lab]] to track how people think, feel, and perform with AI in the workplace. It supplied the dataset of **over 400,000 employees** behind [[claim-mindset-decline]] and co-ran the workslop research with co-authors [[entity-kate-niederhoffer]], [[entity-alexi-robichaux]], and [[entity-jeffrey-t-hancock]].

- **Canonical URL:** betterup.com (research content under 'BetterUp Labs').