{"id":698829,"date":"2026-05-27T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698829\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:27:09","slug":"employment-hero-ceo-ben-thompson-began-ai-start-up-thats-building-robots-to-hire-fire-and-pay-20pc-of-our-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/698829\/","title":{"rendered":"Employment Hero CEO Ben Thompson began AI start-up that\u2019s building robots to hire, fire and pay 20pc of our workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 28, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>About halfway through our interview, Ben Thompson, the founder of $2 billion human resources technology company Employment Hero, casually mentions that its new artificial intelligence tool is interviewing about 1000 candidates a week for jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Employment Hero is set up as a one-stop platform for HR, payroll, hiring and paying employee benefits, primarily for small to medium-sized businesses that lack an internal legal or human resources department. Close to 15 per cent of the country\u2019s privately employed workers \u2013 or 2.5 million employees \u2013 are now being paid through its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 28, 2026 \u2013 5.00am About halfway through our interview, Ben Thompson, the founder of $2 billion human&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-698829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698829","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=698829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}