IT Brief New Zealand - Technology news for CIOs & IT decision-makers
New Zealand

Workplace automation Stories - Page 5

Global Stories

Workplace automation stories

UK, US firms abandon AI plans amid skills shortage
Digital Transformation

UK, US firms abandon AI plans amid skills shortage

Major UK and US professional services firms are shelving AI projects as skill shortages bite, exposing a gap between tech spend and staff readiness.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Wed, 25th Mar 2026
UK law firms lead AI use for time savings & profit
Digital Transformation

UK law firms lead AI use for time savings & profit

UK legal professionals emerge as global AI leaders, with 62% regular users and strong training seen as key to boosting profitability.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 5 min read • Wed, 25th Mar 2026
monday.com launches AI agent hiring platform Agentalent.ai
Digital Transformation

monday.com launches AI agent hiring platform Agentalent.ai

monday.com unveils Agentalent.ai, a marketplace to recruit, vet and onboard AI agents into defined business roles alongside human staff.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 24th Mar 2026
TeamViewer launches AI reporting tool for IT teams
Data Analytics

TeamViewer launches AI reporting tool for IT teams

TeamViewer unveils Tia Reporting, an AI dashboard tool that lets IT teams build live, no-code reports on digital workplaces via chat prompts.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Tue, 24th Mar 2026
Explainer: IBM to triple US entry-level hiring amid AI shift
Digital Transformation

Explainer: IBM to triple US entry-level hiring amid AI shift

IBM will triple US entry-level hiring in 2026, redesigning junior roles around AI oversight and human judgement despite automation pressures.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Sat, 21st Mar 2026
OpenAI monitors internal coding agents for risky conduct
DevOps

OpenAI monitors internal coding agents for risky conduct

OpenAI unveils a GPT-5.4-powered system that audits its own coding agents for rule-bending behaviour, flagging suspicious sessions to humans.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Sat, 21st Mar 2026
Arcadian's AI success: Start small, solve real problems
DevOps

Arcadian's AI success: Start small, solve real problems

Arcadian Digital backs small, tightly scoped AI projects solving real business problems over hype-fuelled, grandiose rollouts.

By Donovan Jackson • 4 min read • Mon, 16th Mar 2026
Gartner tips AI to upend work tools, hiring & data
Data Analytics

Gartner tips AI to upend work tools, hiring & data

Gartner predicts AI will disrupt office software, hiring and data by 2030, triggering a USD $58 billion productivity tools shake-up.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026
AI speeds up workdays but doesn't lighten workloads
Unified Communications

AI speeds up workdays but doesn't lighten workloads

AI is speeding up shorter workdays but piling on more tasks, with rising collaboration, multitasking and weekend work, a study finds.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026
UK leaders overestimate everyday use of AI at work
Data Analytics

UK leaders overestimate everyday use of AI at work

UK bosses vastly overestimate how often staff use AI at work, with big gaps over daily use, task delegation and who actually benefits.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Wed, 11th Mar 2026
Women engineers gain AI career boost, yet trust lags
DevOps

Women engineers gain AI career boost, yet trust lags

Women engineers say AI is accelerating careers but remain wary of bias and blurred accountability for machine-generated code at work.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Tue, 10th Mar 2026
TestGorilla unveils AI fluency tests to reshape hiring
Human Capital Management

TestGorilla unveils AI fluency tests to reshape hiring

TestGorilla rolls out AI fluency tests and simulations to help employers measure AI readiness as skills overtake experience in hiring.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Fri, 6th Mar 2026

Stories from Other Regions

Workplace automation stories

Dropbox urges Australians to cut digital clutter at work
Storage

Dropbox urges Australians to cut digital clutter at work

Dropbox warns Australians that digital clutter is sapping productivity and wellbeing, urging workers to simplify apps, files and notifications.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Tue, 24th Mar 2026
Mediazoo relaunches Finer Vision for AI skills training
eLearning

Mediazoo relaunches Finer Vision for AI skills training

Mediazoo relaunches Finer Vision as an AI skills arm, promising to close the UK workplace AI gap with new training and consultancy models.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Fri, 20th Mar 2026
ICS.AI launches free student AI access for UK universities
Software-as-a-Service

ICS.AI launches free student AI access for UK universities

ICS.AI unveils a national higher education AI model giving UK students free access to campus tools in a bid to close the AI skills gap.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Fri, 20th Mar 2026
Irish leaders most wary on AI risks in Expleo survey
Data Protection

Irish leaders most wary on AI risks in Expleo survey

Irish bosses are warier of AI risks than peers in the UK, Germany and France, with cybersecurity and job fears driving cautious adoption.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
EY launches AI Academy to upskill Australian workers
Data Protection

EY launches AI Academy to upskill Australian workers

EY has launched an AI Academy in Australia to upskill workers, standardise everyday AI use and tighten governance across organisations.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Wed, 18th Mar 2026
Malaysia chases AI hub status but workplace use lags
Data Protection

Malaysia chases AI hub status but workplace use lags

Malaysia pitches itself as a regional AI hub, but new research shows workplace adoption lags far behind the technology's potential.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Thu, 12th Mar 2026