Employment Hero CEO Ben Thompson has doubled down on the company’s aggressive AI-first push, unveiling plans to track staff usage and reward the most enthusiastic adopters of the technology.
In an all-hands meeting on Thursday last week, details of which were shared with Capital Brief, Thompson said the HR software unicorn will begin monitoring employees’ AI usage, specifically the frequency of AI prompts made across the organisation. It’s part of a broader plan to become an AI-first organisation in just six weeks.
“For the next eight days, we don’t really care about the quality of the prompting, just how frequently you use it,” Thompson told staff during the February 27 gathering. “Just become comfortable using it for everything that you do whenever you face a question that you don’t know the answer to.”
Thompson explained the company will create a leaderboard displaying which employees are most actively engaging with AI tools, particularly Google’s Gemini, which has been designated as the company’s default AI platform. The CEO indicated prizes would be awarded to employees showing the most significant adoption rates.
