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What Role Does AI Play in the Post Modern Workplace?


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Today's voyage of discovery on the SS tomorrow examines the role AI plays in the modern workforce. From screening resumes to managing shift workers and performing repetitive tasks. The wheels of the fourth industrial revolution are starting to turn.

About today's Guests

Tom Cornell, Head of Assessments at Hirevue. Hirevue is the hiring platform of choice for many leading Australian brands including Foxtel, AMP and Mecca Maxima.

HireVue is the global leader in virtual interviewing and assessments technology that has hosted more than 20m video interviews and 143m chat-based candidate engagements for over 700 customers globally. 

Tom is a hiring expert, with a background in psychometrics and cognitive neuroscience. At HireVue, he specialises in the development and delivery of HireVue's interview and game-based assessments. 

Deepesh from Deputy

Deepesh Banerji is the Senior Vice President for Product Development at Deputy. He shares with us today the future of shift workers in various industry such as Hospitality and Healthcare.

The widespread adoption of AI and automation is impacting how businesses employ and schedule staff. The benefits of AI in industries such as hospitality, retail, logistics and the health industry extend beyond simplifying tasks across organisations. It can also eliminate bias within the workplace. 

Deputy, the workforce management software company, has developed technology such as Smart Scheduling to help businesses, including the Boat House GroupBondi Vet, and Messina adopt more streamlined processes through AI and automation and stamp out bias. 

Quan Nguyen from Incredibots is a Chatbot Agency based in Brisbane. Incredibots build Chatbots that help businesses automate services such as Questions and Answers on their website. We discuss the term cobot as it implies the automation assists human workers as opposed to competing with them for a job.

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