{"id":454566,"date":"2026-05-18T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T08:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T08:21:13","slug":"stay-flexible-and-keep-learning-irish-life-ceo-declan-bolger-on-how-ai-is-reshaping-workplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/454566\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stay flexible and keep learning\u2019 \u2013 Irish Life CEO Declan Bolger on how AI is reshaping workplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Declan Bolger says technology will \u2018enhance\u2019 jobs rather than replace them, but says our education system could be better aligned with major employers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Irish Life CEO Declan Bolger. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2d9a56cd-8aab-40c7-90df-9dc5d87e35c9.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Irish Life CEO Declan Bolger. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">From the upper floors of Irish Life\u2019s Abbey Street headquarters, chief executive Declan Bolger says the lesson of a fast-changing economy is straightforward: people cannot rely on the skills they leave college with to carry them through a working life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Bolger says workplaces are being reshaped by digital change and artificial intelligence, and he believes lifelong learning will be essential for employees in every sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Declan Bolger says technology will \u2018enhance\u2019 jobs rather than replace them, but says our education system could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,3502,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-454566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}