Anthropic rolls out Claude Cowork for cross-device workplace tasks

Anthropic began rolling Claude Cowork to web and mobile in beta, starting with Max users, and said the update let workers start a task at their desks, check progress on a phone and finish later even after a laptop was closed. The company framed the feature as a way to carry office work across devices instead of trapping it on one screen.

Anthropic said Cowork remote sessions ran on its servers, not on a user’s computer, with sessions and files tied to the user’s Claude account so work could resume on desktop, web or mobile. The help center said users could start, steer and review tasks on any of those surfaces, and pick up a session that began elsewhere. Scheduled tasks were also supported, which meant work could continue in the background with no device online.

The shift matters because Anthropic said more than 90% of Cowork usage was outside software development. Business operations and content creation made up roughly half of activity, a sign that the tool is being pushed into ordinary office chores rather than just coding. Anthropic pointed to tasks such as drafting reports, reconciling spend, turning contracts into trackers and building client decks as the kind of “work around the work” it wants Claude to absorb.

That broader use case raises the practical questions that matter inside companies: who can use the tool, how much they can spend and how their sessions are governed when work moves from laptop to phone and back again. Anthropic said Cowork was ready for enterprise use, with administrators able to manage feature access, control spend and track usage across the organization.

The rollout is not identical across devices. Anthropic said some functions on web and mobile, including local file access, browser use and computer use, still worked through the Claude Desktop app, while desktop remained the full Cowork experience. That setup suggests Anthropic is widening access without fully replacing the workstation, keeping the deepest controls where the desktop app remains strongest.

Armmand Hosseini of Ramp illustrated the handoff between devices with a travel example: “I started on my laptop and picked the session up on my phone while waiting for my bag to come out.” For employers, that kind of continuity could make AI assistants harder to confine to a single workflow and easier to fold into the day-to-day rhythm of office work.