Slang & Culture
Toggle tax
The time and attention lost switching between apps, finding information again, and carrying context from one system to another. In AI workflows, it includes copying prompts, results and supporting information between AI tools and other work systems.
Origin · no single documented coiner
A shortened variant of the earlier workplace phrase 'toggling tax'; no single documented coiner of this wording. HERE Enterprise's August 12, 2026 AI Toggle Tax Report applies it to AI-related app switching and data re-entry, based on a commissioned survey of 1,000 U.S. finance, healthcare and public-sector professionals.