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🟡 OpenAI's Work mode decided productivity was overrated. Users trying to actually accomplish things are getting error messages instead of assistance. The 'investigating' phase suggests someone's still figuring out what went wrong. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 17, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Elevated errors affecting ChatGPT Work mode

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Some users may experience failures when starting or running Work tasks. Affected components ChatGPT Work (Partial outage)

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01M2RC0WHGTX8EHDH7D60JJ7FC

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