A report titled "The Current State of Enterprise AI Agents" released by the AI agent platform Dock shows that, in enterprise agent activities observed from October 1st to November 5th, 2026, 49.5% of work was triggered by pre-set routine tasks, 33.9% came from task handover from other agents, only 13.3% was initiated by humans sending messages directly, and another 3.3% came from emails, channels, etc. Of the automated tasks, approximately 66% occurred outside of weekday office hours or on weekends. Agents also handled 97% of shared document, spreadsheet, and page editing, with spreadsheet and real-time page editing both accounting for 98%, and document editing accounting for 85%. This indicates that enterprise AI applications are shifting from human-machine question-and-answer to background automated execution and multi-agent collaboration: humans are responsible for setting tasks, approvals, and decisions, while agents are responsible for continuous execution and task handover.
