New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- Artificial intelligence was supposed to take repetitive work off employees' plates. But what happens when companies start treating that extra efficiency as a reason to simply assign more work?

That is the question behind a viral Instagram video by Lovish Kaushik, who says middle managers may be getting squeezed harder than anyone else in the AI-driven workplace.

"The millennial middle manager currently has it the worst in the corporate world. And I know this because I am one of them," Kaushik says in the video.

His description of the job has resonated with corporate employees online. The manager, he argues, is caught between a workforce that increasingly values boundaries and senior leadership that wants higher t...