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Enterprise AI firm Writer and Workplace Intelligence have shed light in a shocking new report illustrating the overall widespread resistance to AI in the workplace. The AI Adoption Survey, which interviewed 2,400 knowledge workers in the US, UK, and Europe in 2026, established that 29% of all employees confess to optionally sabotaging AI strategy within their company.

The percentage of Gen Z employees who do so soars to 44 percent. The primary reason? The fear of being displaced by AI from their jobs was quoted by 30% of those sabotaging the technology. Other reasons consist of fears of security threats, workload, and perceived loss of creativity.

Familiar methods of sabotage are entering company data into publicly available AI systems, utilizing unauthorized software, refusing to embrace AI, or generating substandard AI output.

The alarmed C-suite executives believe that employee resistance poses a significant threat, with 77 per cent of them seeing it as a serious threat. A lot of businesses are now contemplating cutting promotions or even firing employees that refuse to adopt AI skills. The results show an increasing generation gap and the necessity to improve change management in the context of AI transformation.