The State of Teams 2026: How Top Teams Avoid the AI Fragmentation Tax

Billions are being invested in AI, yet most organizations still struggle to translate individual productivity gains into team-wide results. This report shows how leading teams reduce the fragmentation tax, improve coordination, and use AI to drive faster, more connected execution.

The State of Teams 2026 examines a growing challenge facing modern organizations: AI is accelerating individual output faster than teams can coordinate around it. While most leaders report that AI increases speed, very few can point to clear organization-wide ROI. The result is a costly “fragmentation tax,” where more work gets created, but alignment, sign-offs, prioritization, and shared decisionmaking fail to keep pace.

Drawing on research from Atlassian’s Teamwork Lab, including survey data from more than 12,000 global knowledge workers and 173 Fortune 1000

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