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Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami. Is AI really to blame?

Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI).The link seems…
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Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here

There has been no shortage of bold claims recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs — from mass unemployment to over-hyped distraction. Much of this debate is speculative. Often, coming…
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How Microsoft approaches tech-enabled team leadership

Do you work at an organisation in 2026? If so, here are four insights from Sarah Carney, Microsoft's CTO for Australia and New Zealand, that you can use to help build productive hybrid team processes…
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Five truths about AI that leaders need to know

There’s a difference between driving a car, knowing how it works, and managing a whole fleet. In the same way, people may use technology proficiently without understanding how it works or making…
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Plan. Learn. Make. Play.

A framework for AI that actually fits your working day.Most advice about AI at work starts with the technology. Here’s a tool. Here’s a prompt. Here’s a use case. But the reason so many organisations…
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The four clashes all leaders need to balance

Leaders in business and society will need to manage four clashes of competing priorities to navigate this decade of disorientation, according to a new report from the University of Sydney Business…
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AI chatbots are coming to your workplace but are not necessarily coming for your job

Artificial Intelligence chatbots are everywhere. They have captured the public imagination and that of countless Silicon Valley inventors and investors since the arrival of ChatGPT about a year ago…
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Hybrid work: the 9 things we have learnt

After the pandemic-induced experimentation with new forms of work – here is a checklist of nine things we have learnt about hybrid working (and what is, and isn’t, working).1. Hybrid is not one…

Why automation makes your job harder: unlearn automation

We discuss why it’s no longer true that automation and AI will make all our jobs easier.While automation might reduce the amount of work available to humans and leads to job losses, at least the…

Why the unlearn project, and computers

We set out to unlearn old wisdoms and discover new ones, starting with computers.When the world changes, we also need to change our common sense. And as it turns out we live in a time when lots of…

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