Bengaluru tech professional Rupali Tiwari says the spread of AI tools has changed workplace expectations in an unexpected way: instead of simply reducing effort, she claims employees are being given substantially more work because managers assume AI allows them to complete tasks faster.

In a video posted through her Instagram account @rupali_tiwari__, Tiwari said that where an employee might previously have been assigned about five tasks, the number can now reach 20 to 25. The video and her remarks were reported by Aaj Tak on August 23.

What Rupali Tiwari claimed about AI and workload

Tiwari said that when AI tools first became widely available, they appeared to make work easier, even as employees worried that automation could eventually threaten their jobs.

According to her account, expectations later shifted. She said managers and team leads began assuming that if AI could speed up parts of the job, employees should be capable of handling much more work than before.

Tiwari claimed that this has resulted in some workers receiving 20 to 25 tasks where they might once have received around five. She argued that completing more work does not necessarily reduce the pressure because the amount considered sufficient keeps increasing.

She also referred to a software engineer friend at a large company who, according to her, is simultaneously handling roughly 10 projects and is responsible for writing code, reviewing it and deploying it.

Those numbers are Tiwari's personal claims. No company was identified in the available report, and there is no independently verified workplace data showing that employees generally have moved from five tasks to 20 or 25 because of AI.

Why she compared the pace to doing 10 years of work in months

Tiwari used another comparison to describe the pressure she says employees are experiencing. She said it can feel as though companies want work that would normally take 10 years to be completed within six months or a year.

The statement was presented as her description of the pace and expectations she has observed, not as a literal company target or a measured productivity figure.

She ended the video by asking whether the experience was limited to her company or the technology industry, or whether employees in other sectors were seeing a similar change.

What is confirmed and what is still unknown

The available evidence confirms that the remarks were attributed to Tiwari's Instagram video and that Aaj Tak reported the specific claims about five tasks becoming 20 to 25, the example of a friend handling around 10 projects, and the comparison with completing years of work in a much shorter period.

What remains unclear is which employer Tiwari was referring to, what kinds of tasks were being counted, over what period the workload changed, and whether the example involving the software engineer can be independently verified. No response from an identified employer was included in the report.

That distinction matters because the video documents one professional's experience and perception of AI-driven workplace pressure. It does not by itself establish that the same increase in workload is occurring across Bengaluru's technology sector or the wider workforce.

What happens next

The immediate issue raised by the video is whether productivity gains from AI are reducing employees' workloads or instead being converted into higher output expectations.

For Tiwari's specific claims to move beyond a personal account, further evidence would be needed from employers, workers or workplace data showing how task volumes changed after AI tools were introduced. Until then, the figures of five tasks becoming 20 to 25 and 10 projects being handled at once should be treated as attributed claims rather than established industry-wide facts.