Avani Prabhakar on team productivity
From How Dropbox is designing intentional work in the AI era with Loom | Team '26 | Atlassian · · Atlassian
“For those teams where you are actually using AI at a team level and as a team player, as a team sport, where you have actually looked at the workflow and then bolted AI on top of it, those productivity or the efficiency of those teams are 5.6x to 6x, which is not double or triple, it's actually five times more than what a non-AI team or a team which is using AI without working through the collaboration layer achieves.”
On , Avani Prabhakar, Chief People Officer at Atlassian, spoke about team productivity during How Dropbox is designing intentional work in the AI era with Loom | Team '26 | Atlassian on Atlassian.
About Avani Prabhakar
Avani Prabhakar, Chief People and AI Enablement Officer at Atlassian, spoke at the Team '26 event on May 7, 2026, in a conversation with Dropbox's Allison Vendt about AI transformation and collaboration. Prabhakar stated that 99% of Atlassians use the company's AI tool Rovo in daily work, and that about one-third of employees are considered "super users" who use AI effectively to change workflows. She said that AI is often used for individual productivity but does not deliver gains for team or enterprise productivity, and described a "fragmentation tax" where AI implementation increases coordination needs rather than collaboration. Prabhakar noted that 84% of C-suite investment in AI goes into tooling, with few companies investing in skills, capabilities, or ways of working. She said that teams using AI at a team level, with workflows redesigned around AI, are 5.6 times more efficient than non-AI teams or teams using AI without a collaboration layer. She recommended starting with small, documented "AI working agreements" for specific workflows rather than attempting company-wide transformation.