workload

American  

[wurk-lohd] / ˈwɜrkˌloʊd /

Or work load

noun

1. the amount of work that a machine, employee, or group of employees can be or is expected to perform.

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workload British  

/ ˈwɜːkˌləʊd /

noun

1. the amount of work to be done, esp in a specified period by a person, machine, etc

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Etymology

Origin of workload

First recorded in 1940–45; work + load

Example Sentences

Leah reduced their public hours to ease their workload, 3–5 p.m. and 8–10 p.m. only.

From Literature

“We still need to proofread every chart it creates” — thus acknowledging, accurately, that AI can increase, not relieve, users’ workloads.

From Los Angeles Times

"We expect every app, every workload, every user to be using AI in some part of their workflow" in just a few years, Alistair Speirs, a manager for infrastructure at Microsoft, told AFP.

From Barron's

The move seems to be a bet on the idea that businesses want flexibility in terms of what they use when conducting AI workloads.

From MarketWatch

While AI workloads are often measured in tokens, or fragments of text processed by large language models, AWUs quantify the amount of digital labor actually added by AI.

From MarketWatch