- Yahoo Japan bets that compulsory use of AI can unlock innovation in the workplace
- The company plan begins with the automation of 30% of daily tasks, such as meetings and documents
- Internal tools like Seekai will manage expenses, research prompts and the summary of meeting notes
Yahoo Japan takes a daring step by demanding that the 11,000 of its employees integrate a generative AI in their daily work, aimed at double productivity by 2028.
The company, which also operates Line, plans to make AI tools a standard part of tasks such as research, reception of documentation, spending management and even a competitive analysis.
The idea is to move the development of employees of the routine exit to higher level thought and communication by allowing AI to manage the basics and create a continuous innovation.
Targeting 30% first
The deployment begins in the most universal aspects of office life: areas such as research, writing and routine documentation, that Yahoo Japan estimates take around 30% of the time of its employees.
The company has already developed internal tools like Seekai to manage tasks such as spending complaints and data research using invited models.
The AI will also be used to help create agendas, summarize meetings and reread reports, giving staff more space to focus on decision -making and discussion.
This decision may seem extreme, but it follows a broader trend of companies trying to exploit AI as a productivity tool rather than cost reduction.
Yahoo Japan’s strategy assumes that automation is not only a tool of efficiency but a working standard, but there is proof more and more than the treatment of AI as a complete replacement for human workers can be short -sighted.
A recent report by Orgvue says more than half of the British companies that have replaced workers with AI now regret this decision. This testifies to a crucial distinction: although AI can support and rationalize, it is often not part of the areas requiring nuances, empathy or the context of the real world.
In this day, the Yahoo Japan model, the one that promotes AI as a support layer rather than a substitute, could be more durable.
It is certainly a sign of things to come, and from my point of view, the generator is not there to erase jobs, even if there are relationships of people who lose jobs for the benefit of AI in certain regions.
AI should only move what work is like by removing repetitive tasks and by releasing space for critical thinking and creativity, where human contribution remains essential.
The approach of Yahoo Japan, if it was implemented with care and flexibility, could help to shape this change in a more inclusive and less disturbing way.
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