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monday.com launches AI agents & upgrades to power workplace automation

Thu, 25th Sep 2025
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monday.com launches AI agents and upgrades to boost automation, enhancing sales, marketing, and enterprise controls for over 250,000 users worldwide.
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Behind the bots: Rebuilding agent trust in the age of AI

Tue, 23rd Sep 2025
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Contact centres in Australia and New Zealand embrace AI for efficiency but face challenges in rebuilding trust and support for human agents amid rising job anxieties.
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Incremental intelligence: The case for AI as an intern, not a partner

Mon, 22nd Sep 2025
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Treat AI like an intern, not a partner: start with small tasks, verify accuracy, and only promote its role once reliability is proven to manage risk effectively.
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Workday acquires Sana for USD $1.1 billion to boost AI at work

Wed, 17th Sep 2025
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Workday will acquire AI firm Sana for USD $1.1 billion to integrate AI tools enhancing employee experience and learning across its platform.
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Salesforce unveils AI tools for Australian government expansion

Thu, 28th Aug 2025
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Salesforce launches AI tools for public sector and expands in Canberra, enhancing digital services as Australia ranks seventh in global AI readiness.
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Deel launches AI Workforce to streamline global HR & payroll

Tue, 19th Aug 2025
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Deel launches AI Workforce, offering seven AI agents to automate HR and payroll tasks across 150+ countries, easing understaffing pressures globally.
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Employees favour AI collaboration but resist AI in management roles

Wed, 13th Aug 2025
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New research shows 75% of employees welcome AI as work partners but only 30% are comfortable with AI acting as their manager.
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Agents reshape work as guardian AI addresses new risks

Tue, 17th Jun 2025
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Agentic AI agents are transforming work, boosting productivity and privacy, while guardian AI tackles emerging risks in AI autonomy and security.
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AI agents reshape workplace roles, freeing employees for key tasks

Wed, 11th Jun 2025
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AI agents are transforming workplaces by automating routine tasks, freeing employees to focus on complex, strategic work across industries like recruitment and manufacturing.
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AI's impact on Australian software engineering industry

Wed, 16th Apr 2025
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Sabrina Farmer, Chief Technology Officer at GitLab, asserts that AI will transform Australian workplaces without eliminating software engineers' roles.
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How to calculate your utilization: Professional Services 101

Mon, 18th Mar 2024
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Determining your consultancy's utilisation – involves assessing billable hours as a proportion of total hours worked, with automation offering time-saving calculation benefits.
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Can AI solve wage theft problems better than workplace regulators?

Fri, 8th Dec 2023
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The stigma around AI may also mean those employers are missing an opportunity to get ahead of the dramatic changes coming from the amendments.
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Embracing tech and AI: Nurturing optimism and mitigating concerns

Mon, 4th Dec 2023
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AI and technology in the workplace are no longer a distant vision but a present reality, reshaping the frontline.
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Salesforce launches next gen of its conversational AI assistant

Fri, 15th Sep 2023
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Einstein Copilot is a new generative AI-powered conversational assistant for every Salesforce application, baked seamlessly into the flow of work.
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Ready Towing partners Advanced for time-tracking and payroll

Thu, 14th Sep 2023
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Ready Towing will use Advanced's software to manage its workforce's schedule, track time, record absences, and automate repetitive manual tasks.
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How to combat burnout among payroll professionals

Wed, 6th Sep 2023
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In the face of escalating complications and the need to continuously adapt, payroll professionals are increasingly experiencing burnout.
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Ivanti adds greater automation capabilities to Enterprise Service Management portfolio

Wed, 19th Aug 2020
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Ivanti enhances its enterprise service management portfolio with biometric authentication and automation bots.
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AI adoption stalling despite huge industry growth

Fri, 28th Feb 2020
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Despite the APAC region's AI potential, trust issues, biases, and lack of transparency stall adoption, as revealed in an Ernst and Young poll.
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Are you ready for the hyperautomation wave?

Wed, 19th Feb 2020
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Hyperautomation, a top 2020 strategic tech trend per Gartner, integrates AI, RPA, and process mining to enhance workplace efficiency and elevate human roles.
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Humans to be working alongside robots in retail within 5 years - Gartner

Wed, 5th Feb 2020
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Retailers will embed robots into their workforce by 2025, with AI and automation transforming warehouse operations, says Gartner.