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Fifty-nine per cent of Australian workers now use AI at work. The ones who do are twice as likely to be thinking about leaving. If you've spent the past year encouraging AI adoption, that second number should get your attention.

Forty-two per cent of companies expect AI agents to make decisions without human approval by 2030. Only 5 per cent have the controls in place today. Closing that gap starts with who you hire to own them.

Since the OAIC released its guidance, one question keeps coming up: do the new privacy rules on automated decisions apply to our hiring? For most mid-size organisations running modern recruitment tools, the honest answer is probably yes. And the deadline is 10 December.

Seventy-eight per cent of recruitment agencies have adopted AI in some form. Six per cent have embedded it into how they actually operate. Almost everyone has the tools. Almost nobody has changed how they work.

Gartner has Fortune 500 organisations running fewer than 15 AI agents each in 2025, and more than 15,000 each by 2028. Mercer found 82 per cent of C-suite leaders believe the future of HR lies in managing human talent and digital agents side by side.

As AI tools flood into Australian workplaces, a new role keeps appearing on org charts: the AI Enablement Manager. It's one of the most misunderstood positions in modern business — often confused with an AI engineer, a trainer, or an IT lead. In reality, it's none of those. Here's what the role actually involves, and why more businesses are creating it.