Some users have reportedly shared online that they are facing issues while using ChatGPT Work, irrespective of their subscription plan. This suggests that the ongoing issue is not limited to users on a particular subscription tier.
In a recent update, OpenAI’s status page shows that “ChatGPT Work seeing elevated errors and latency.” The company states that users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work and that it is continuing to work on a mitigation.
OpenAI has marked the incident as “Identified” and a partial outage. An earlier update specifically mentioned that Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode being unavailable for them.
Furthermore, the issue was first highlighted on Monday, August 31, 2026, at around 8:34 PM IST, when OpenAI said that users were experiencing elevated latency for the impacted services. This was followed by another update at around 8:51 PM IST, stating that users were experiencing elevated errors and that Plus users were particularly affected.
The latest update, posted at around 9:32 PM IST, reads:
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“User across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks in ChatGPT Work. We are continuing to work on a mitigation.
Meanwhile, users have also reported issues online. One Reddit user said (post now removed) that ChatGPT Work would remain stuck on “Working” before eventually showing a network error, while regular ChatGPT continued to work normally. At around 9:55 PM, Downdetector also recorded around 1283 reports related to ChatGPT around the same period.
However, OpenAI’s official status page currently identifies ChatGPT Work as the affected service, so the incident should not be described as a platform-wide ChatGPT outage at this point.
