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OpinionAravind Srinivas · X· @AravSrinivas·· 41 minutes ago

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The median Perplexity employee now gets 7x more agent-hours per week from teammates than in September. And this has been consistently up every single week. 1 in 5 are already at 40+ agent-hours a week, which is basically a full extra workweek.

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Aravind Srinivas
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reported Perplexity employees’ weekly agent-hours have risen consistently since September, with the median now at seven times the September level
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The median Perplexity employee now gets 7x more agent-hours per week from teammates than in September.

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The median Perplexity employee now gets 7x more agent-hours per week from teammates than in September. And this has been consistently up every single week. 1 in 5 are already at 40+ agent-hours a week, which is basically a full extra workweek.

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Aravind Srinivas said Perplexity employees now get seven times as many agent-hours per week from teammates as they did in September, with the median rising every week. One in five employees now gets at least 40 agent-hours weekly, which Srinivas described as roughly an extra workweek.

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