The devil is in the details... what you describe screams to me what I call the "new boss syndrome". New boss comes in and they feel the need to pee on everyone to mark their territory so they MUST bring in some genius change.
99% of the time, they are bringing in some forced change for the sake of change or something that worked on their previous place without taking into consideration the context.
I do not know anyone who prefers to work harder... either the changes proposed make no sense (or it's too complex for people to understand the benefit) or the change is superfluous. That is usually where resistance to change comes from.
This is typical behaviour of morons... they make up skills they do not have to feel important. It is a continuation of the reason why morons believe conspiracy theories so easily, it gives them a sense they are special somehow and "got it" when others are "missing it"
Exactly the same reason cops claim to be able to "know" if someone is high just by looking at them
not sure there is any research done by people using office suite...
it sounds like you are conflating LLM in general with the crappy copilot that MS offers with the office suite
an LLM could be useful for research of large (large) datasets... Copilot would not be