---
id: "quote-roi-kept-by-employee"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ What Leaders Can Do"]
tags: ["roi", "executive-perspective"]
related: ["concept-ai-knowledge-hiding", "entity-greg-shove"]
speaker: "Greg Shove"
speakers: ["Greg Shove"]
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"
---
# AI ROI Is Kept by the Employee

> "It's not that there isn't any [ROI from AI]. It's that the ROI is being kept by the employee."
> — [[entity-greg-shove|Greg Shove]], CEO of Section

**Why it matters:** The economic thesis in one line. It reframes the 'where is the AI ROI?' debate: the returns exist but are *trapped at the individual level* by [[concept-ai-knowledge-hiding]] and [[concept-suppression-of-solutions]], never scaling to collective organizational value.


## Related across articles
- [[concept-ai-economic-value-measurement]]
- [[claim-marginal-business-impact]]