AI-Enabled Chairs: When Workplace Surveillance Meets AI Humor

When your boss says, “Use AI everywhere,” and Procurement takes it literally.

Some workplace patterns repeat themselves so consistently that they almost start to feel scripted. This cartoon grew out of one such pattern — the rise of AI workplace humor, where companies enthusiastically try to “AI-enable” everything, even when the logic collapses under its own weight.

In this scenario, a simple idea snowballs into a full-blown mandate:

AI-enabled chairs that alert HR if an employee is away for more than two minutes.

The absurdity comes from how seriously the instruction is delivered.

Cartoon insight

Companies keep turning everyday objects into “smart devices,” whether or not the upgrade is useful. The fun begins when this enthusiasm meets corporate surveillance culture. This cartoon exaggerates that marriage just enough to make it funny — without straying too far from reality.

The CEO’s instruction is delivered with complete confidence, which is exactly what makes the punchline land.

What this AI Workplace humor highlights:

• The corporate impulse to measure everything — even chair occupancy

• AI used as a blanket solution for problems that don’t exist

• HR’s expanding surveillance toolkit

• Procurement being pulled into questionable tech decisions

• How modern workplaces turn ordinary behaviors into trackable “events”

The joke works because it feels absurd and familiar at the same time.

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