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Paul Welty, PhD AI, WORK, AND STAYING HUMAN

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Leaders are in a losing battle with their employees over office attendance.

Leaders are in a losing battle with their employees over office attendance.

Discover why leaders struggle with office attendance and how the future of work hangs in the balance between corporate demands and employee preferences.

Leaders are in a losing battle with their employees over office attendance. Corporate leaders and their employees are in a fight for the soul of the workplace. For many of us, the outcome will define our work life for decades.

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The agent-shaped org chart

Every real org has the same topology: principal, role-holder, specialists. Staff AI maps onto it, node for node, and the cost collapse shows up in the deliverables that were always just human-handoff overhead.

AI as staff, not software

Two frames for what AI is doing to work. The tool frame makes tools smarter. The staff frame makes roles unnecessary. Those aren't the same product, the same company, or the same industry.

Knowledge work was never work

Knowledge work was always coordination between humans who couldn't share state directly. The artifacts were never the work. They were the overhead — and AI just made the overhead optional.

The work of being available now

A book on AI, judgment, and staying human at work.

The practice of work in progress

Practical essays on how work actually gets done.

How do I get my dev team to adopt AI?

A stub on helping mixed-interest development teams find their own useful ways into AI.

Want to learn about agents? Talk to someone who ran an agency.

I spent 20 years running consulting engagements at Fortune 500 companies. Turns out that's the best preparation for running a fleet of AI agents ... because the problems are identical.

Your AI agents need a water cooler

We run a twelve-session AI fleet that coordinates through an IRC breakroom. A friend asked: why are you making AI agents act like humans? The answer turned out to be more interesting than the question.

Jasper is a useful tool for developing employee training.

Transform employee training with Jasper by aligning programs to business goals, engaging diverse learning styles, and using innovative methods for success.

Artificial intelligence could hit three in five workers — Possibly replacing their jobs. The warning comes in a new international monetary fund report on the future of work. It warned of lower sala…

AI could replace three in five workers, warns an IMF report, signaling potential job loss and lower salaries. Discover the implications for the future of work.

Atlassians choose where they work, every single day. Download our free report to see what we’ve learned as a result.

Explore Atlassian's insights on flexible work policies and employee satisfaction. Download the free report to learn from their distributed work experience.