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Getting to grips with workplace AI

Jun 6, 2025

Jerry Ting, the founder of Evisort and a senior leader at Workday, along with Angelique de Vries Schipperijn, EMEA president for Workday, dive into the transformative potential of AI in the workplace. They discuss its impact on efficiency in industries like banking and talent management. The duo emphasizes the importance of responsible AI adoption and highlights the generational shift towards tech-savviness in the workforce. Their insights reveal a disparity in global AI adoption, motivating listeners to embrace a proactive approach to integrate AI into their organizations.

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INSIGHT

AI's Massive Disruption Ahead

AI will be a pervasive force driving constant change in business and work.
The next five years will bring bigger disruptions than the previous decades combined.

ANECDOTE

AI Cuts Legal Costs Dramatically

A major bank used AI to reduce legal compliance costs by 70% in one year.
This same AI helped speed contract negotiation by 65%, showing practical productivity gains.

INSIGHT

Humans and Agents Collaborate

Future workforces will blend humans and intelligent agents working in tandem.
Outcome-driven team formation will replace hierarchical org charts for effective collaboration.

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This is the second episode this month about AI and the implications for our jobs.

Two weeks ago I went along to a huge event run by Workday down in North Greenwich. Workday, their partners and their customers took to the stage to talk about applications of AI that are coming to their platform. As part of the event I was able to run a discussion with a couple of voices from the company who are helping businesses navigate the challenges that AI presents to us.

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I was joined by Jerry Ting. Jerry is the founder of Evisort and now teaches at Harvard Law School and is a senior leader at Workday. And the other contributor was Angelique de Vries Schipperijn, she's the EMEA president for Workday. The conversation was fascinating for me in a few ways, firstly we can be so daunted about what AI represents in our jobs and this seemed simple and easy to understand, but secondly because as I mentioned last week the conversations I got from the audience suggested that there’s a lot of businesses who have barely started their own journeys.

Look, here’s the challenge of the moment, I think the conversation at the event described a future that we have the agency to participate in. It seems real and like something we can connect with, but also everyone who came up to me afterwards anxiously told me that their organisations are doing nothing at all. That’s why I got so much value from this conversation. I think inverted commas “doing AI” feels scary and huge whereas incorporating it into some of the things we’re already going feels possible and easily achievable.

I need to declare that this is a promoted episode in the sense that Workday is a client that I was working with at this event and have worked with before, but critically it was a conversation that I’m delighted to be sharing here.

I want to give a shout out to Hollie Benneyworth at Workday who has worked so hard to make this happen.

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