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Codex knowledge work expands into research, reports, and spreadsheets

OpenAI's Codex has expanded its capabilities to handle research, reports, and spreadsheets, targeting the roughly 72 million U.S. knowledge workers who spend 28% of their week on email and 20% searching for internal information. The tool aims to automate these time-consuming tasks, addressing a productivity gap that costs office workers hours each week.

read1 min publishedJun 2, 2026

Office workers in the United States lose hours each week to email triage and to searching for files spread across disconnected systems. Roughly 40 percent of US labor, about 72 million people, works primarily with information such as analysis, documents, designs, and communication. Research from the McKinsey Global Institute puts the average knowledge worker at 28 percent of the workweek on email and close to 20 percent on hunts for internal information or for colleagues … More

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