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id: "entity-kpmg-melbourne-study"
type: "entity"
source_timestamps: ["¶3"]
tags: ["research", "statistics"]
related: ["concept-ai-knowledge-hiding"]
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "KPMG and University of Melbourne Study"
aliases: ["KPMG study", "KPMG / University of Melbourne AI study", "KPMG", "University of Melbourne"]
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-cl-76-employees-not-transparent-ai-usage"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/why-employees-arent-transparent-about-their-ai-usage"
sourceTitle: "Why Employees Aren’t Transparent About Their AI Usage"
---
# KPMG and University of Melbourne Study

**Role in the source:** Headline prevalence statistic. A global study of **more than 48,000 respondents** which found that **57% of employees admitted to hiding their use of AI at work.**

This is the largest-N data point establishing the scale of [[concept-ai-knowledge-hiding]] and opens the source's empirical case.

**Enrichment / canonical anchors:** The recognizable institutional sponsors are **KPMG** (global professional-services firm) and the **University of Melbourne** (academic partner on the global survey). Downstream tooling may prefer to resolve these as two separate organizations; this note keeps them merged as the single study entity referenced by the source.