OpenAI just released a paper showing how they are now seeing the first version of office work where agents do most of th…
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-25
An OpenAI internal paper reveals Codex now generates 99.8% of company output tokens and non-developer agent usage has grown 137x since August 2025, with top users managing up to 71 hours of parallel agent work daily across legal, finance, and recruiting teams.
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Topics: agentic-aiworkplace-automationopenai-codexfuture-of-work
Claims
- OpenAI's Codex now produces 99.8% of the company's internal output tokens, up from below 10% a year earlier.
- Non-developer individual use of agents rose 137x and organizational use rose 189x since August 2025.
- 70.2% of sampled OpenAI users submitted at least one request representing more than one hour of equivalent human work.
- 28.6% of OpenAI users managed five or more concurrent agents simultaneously.
- The 99th-percentile user ran approximately 71 hours of agent work per day through parallel task management.
Key quotes
Non-developer use rose 137x for individuals and 189x for organizations since Aug-25, which means agents are spreading wherever work has repeatable steps, files, rules, and messy follow-through.
Users are changing the work unit itself, since 70.2% of sampled individuals sent a request above 1 hour of human work and 25.6% sent one above 8 hours.
Heavy users no longer wait for one answer, because 28.6% of OpenAI users managed 5+ concurrent agents and the 99th percentile ran about 71 hours of agent work per day.