{"id":80187,"date":"2025-08-19T15:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80187\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:10:11","slug":"why-ai-is-an-industrial-relations-challenge-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/80187\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AI is an industrial relations challenge for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, we have been told that our productivity problem can be solved by taxing landlords, lifting the GST, or reining in big business. The latest hope is that AI will be the breakthrough. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5mm6i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> will not transform the economy simply by existing. Without the ability to redesign jobs and workflows, it will go the way of many other over-hyped technologies \u2013 present in the headlines, absent in the productivity figures.<\/p>\n<p>History is clear on this point. When electricity replaced steam, most factories initially swapped the motor but kept the same layout. It was only when firms reorganised production lines to exploit electricity\u2019s flexibility that output surged. Computers followed the same path \u2013 Robert Solow famously observed that they were \u201ceverywhere except in the productivity statistics\u201d until businesses redesigned work around them. AI will follow the same pattern. Adoption matters more than invention.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For years, we have been told that our productivity problem can be solved by taxing landlords, lifting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-80187","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\/80187","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=80187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}