--- title: How people are using Claude Cowork | daily.dev description: Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions from May 2026 to understand how knowledge workers use AI in daily tasks. The top use case is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-people-are-using-claude-cowork-zsfa1ldtp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How people are using Claude Cowork | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions from May 2026 to understand how knowledge workers use AI in daily tasks. The top use case is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-people-are-using-claude-cowork-zsfa1ldtp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZsFa1lDtp.png og:image:alt: How people are using Claude Cowork og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How people are using Claude Cowork **[Claude](https://daily.dev/sources/claude)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions from May 2026 to understand how knowledge workers use AI in daily tasks. The top use case is business process and operations (33.4%), followed by content creation and copywriting (16.4%). Together these two categories account for roughly half of all usage, reflecting the connective, cross-role work that keeps organizations running — status reports, slide decks, onboarding checklists, and spreadsheets. Software development (8.7%) and DevOps (7%) also appear, but developers tend to use Claude Code for core coding tasks, reserving Cowork for communications-focused work. The data suggests AI adoption in knowledge work is growing beyond coding, with people delegating administrative and synthesis tasks to free up time for higher-judgment work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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