{"id":12993,"date":"2025-07-22T09:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12993\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:01:07","slug":"canva-made-everyone-stop-work-to-spend-a-week-on-ai-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/12993\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva made everyone stop work to spend a week on AI. Should you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/company\/canva-1n9c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canva<\/a> is doing it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/financial-services\/square-to-acquire-afterpay-in-39b-deal-20210802-p58eyi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Afterpay parent company Block<\/a> is doing it too. As organisations grapple with getting their staff comfortable using new AI tools, intensive \u201cdrop everything else non-critical\u201d focus weeks have become the latest rage.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents say asking staff to down tools and learn the new AI systems in one short week rather than across multiple workshop hours is a way to cram a tonne of upskilling into a limited period and quantum leap in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/work-and-careers\/careers\/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-and-it-s-not-where-you-d-think-20250604-p5m4y3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI competency<\/a> across the whole business all at once.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canva is doing it. Afterpay parent company Block is doing it too. As organisations grapple with getting their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-12993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}