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## Segment 1 — spine

## Article 19 — a019

# Kate Niederhoffer

**Role in the source:** Co-author of the HBR article. A **behavioral scientist and practitioner** focused on **employee experience and AI at work**, bridging the academic argument to organizational practice.

**Attributed contributions to this vault:**
- Co-development of the coined behavioral constructs [[concept-workslop-d1|workslop]] and [[concept-pilots-vs-passengers|pilots vs. passengers]], and the survey work behind [[concept-seniority-perception-gap|the Seniority Gap]] (Jan 2026 survey of 1,294 desk workers).
- Co-authorship of the framing quotes [[quote-inventing-the-future]] and [[quote-pilots-over-passengers]].

Co-authors: [[entity-jan-emmanuel-de-neve|Jan-Emmanuel De Neve]] and [[entity-jeffrey-t-hancock|Jeffrey T. Hancock]].

## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 38 — a038

# Kate Niederhoffer

**Kate Niederhoffer** is a co-author of the HBR article and the underlying workslop research, associated with [[entity-betterup-labs]] and organizational-behavior research.

**Role in this source:** co-author / cited voice (byline author).

**Attributed contributions in this vault:** co-authored [[quote-management-failure]] and [[quote-irony-of-ai]]; co-author of the thesis that workslop is a [[claim-management-failure|management failure]] and of the [[framework-system-level-response]].