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Try changing the Worksharing Update Frequency setting:


(this will only help if you are using workshared projects)

Help: Controlling Worksharing Display Update Frequency

Non-recent comment from Kyle (Autodesk staffer):
Recognizing that Worksets alone were not flexible enough to facilitate productive collaboration in many cases, we implemented Element Borrowing. This enabled the transparent borrowing of elements when a user operation required them to be editable, without the need to explicitly "check out" of the entire Workset that contained them.

So Element Borrowing is really the implementation of Worksharing in modern Revit. Worksets were never deprecated, since many existing users at the time still used them for their original purpose. Even today, we see the pre-Element Borrowing understanding of Worksets discussed and implemented in the market. Ultimately, that's our fault for not communicating as effectively as possible with the Revit community. 


Check out the whole thread:
Some thoughts on Revit Worksets and Worksharing | LinkedIn

From Daniel Gijsbers blog:
"if you try to open a revit workshared file (central file) with LT it right away makes a copy of the file with LT added to it's name.

But what is even more surprising it leaves the central file intact. With that I mean I saved the central file in Revit LT and next I open the same file in it's bigger brother. Big Revit says right away: Would you like to create a new local? In other words, you are trying to open a central file. Revit LT doesn't throw away the worksets!

When you have opened the file take a look at the worksharing display


Revit LT has created it's own workset... called Revit LT user"

Read more about the implications of this:
Daniel on Autodesk AEC software: Revit files and Revit LT

Until Revit comes up with some kind of advanced and granular permissions management for workshared files, we are left with a situation that requires best-practice Revit use combined with 100% obedient staff.  If you would like to take matters into your own hands in the meantime, you can use this somewhat scary hack to check out worksets using a concealed user name.  As with many posts on What Revit Wants - use at your own risk!

In short:

1. Copy the username into Microsoft Word and change it to a different font in this example the font called AIGDT. (which is just associate symbols to letters).
2. Copy the username (AIGDT font) back into Revit and as you can see Revit just shows it as bullets.
3. Worksets checked out to that user will appear to others like this:

 
Image and idea by Navid at:
Locking WorkSet with a hidden user name!