When you hear “productivity mining”, the first thought might be surveillance. But in practice, it’s much more about transparency and knowing what’s really going onin your teams. 

In this episode, we speak with Elena Olichowska-Szydłowska,Automation Excellence Manager at Vesuvius, about what it actually took to roll out task mining across Shared Services.From dealing with IT security, to communicating clearly with teams, to getting managers to act on real data – this is the unfiltered version.

We discuss:

• Why Vesuvius chose task mining over traditionalprocess mapping
• How Elena’s team handled employeeconcerns about being monitored
• What changed once leaders saw the workload data
• How the company reached break-even in 6 months
• What kind of findings led to better team balancingand workload reallocation

This is not a theoretical discussion – it’s a look into the operational and human aspects of rolling out task mining at scale.