Practical thinking on AI adoption for Australian small and medium businesses — what the data says, what it means, and what to do about it.
The noise around AI has been considerable, and not always illuminating. Here's a list of real ways you can start using AI in your business right now.
A study of 4,000 Australian firms has delivered findings that Companies embracing AI are hiring 36% more people than those that aren't.
Over 1,000 Australian tech jobs gone in weeks, with AI cited as the cause. But experts are sceptical. And for most businesses, the real question isn't whether AI is taking jobs. It's whether it could be creating them instead.
Australia's largest AI-driven job cuts have just been announced. Two thousand people, thirty percent of a workforce, gone in two years. This is one way to use AI. It is not the only way — or even the best one.
New Randstad data confirms that Australian businesses are racing to adopt AI while quietly forgetting to tell their staff about it. The results, predictably, are not great.
The Government's Q4 2024 AI Adoption Tracker reveals that SME uptake is growing and awareness is improving — while a surprisingly large number of businesses still plan to do nothing whatsoever about any of it.