Getting to grips with workplace AI

Eat Sleep Work Repeat

Bruce Daisley

Management, Workplace Culture, Science, Work, Business, Culture, Social Sciences

4.7 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This is the second episode this month about AI and the implications for our jobs.

Two weeks ago I went along to a huge event run by Workday down in North Greenwich. Workday, their partners and their customers took to the stage to talk about applications of AI that are coming to their platform. As part of the event I was able to run a discussion with a couple of voices from the company who are helping businesses navigate the challenges that AI presents to us.

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I was joined by Jerry Ting. Jerry is the founder of Evisort and now teaches at Harvard Law School and is a senior leader at Workday. And the other contributor was Angelique de Vries Schipperijn, she's the EMEA president for Workday. The conversation was fascinating for me in a few ways, firstly we can be so daunted about what AI represents in our jobs and this seemed simple and easy to understand, but secondly because as I mentioned last week the conversations I got from the audience suggested that there’s a lot of businesses who have barely started their own journeys.

Look, here’s the challenge of the moment, I think the conversation at the event described a future that we have the agency to participate in. It seems real and like something we can connect with, but also everyone who came up to me afterwards anxiously told me that their organisations are doing nothing at all. That’s why I got so much value from this conversation. I think inverted commas “doing AI” feels scary and huge whereas incorporating it into some of the things we’re already going feels possible and easily achievable.

I need to declare that this is a promoted episode in the sense that Workday is a client that I was working with at this event and have worked with before, but critically it was a conversation that I’m delighted to be sharing here.

I want to give a shout out to Hollie Benneyworth at Workday who has worked so hard to make this happen.

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0:00.0	This is Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat.
0:05.6	It's a podcast about workplace culture.
0:07.5	I'm Bruce Daisley.
0:09.0	This is the second episode this month about AI.
0:12.0	And the implications for our jobs two weeks ago went along to a really impressive event run by Workday down in North Greenwich, probably a thousand people attending.
0:21.7	Workday and their clients took to their stage and they were talking about applications of
0:25.6	AI that are coming specifically to their platform, but also the way the work is going to evolve
0:31.4	in the context of those changes.
0:33.5	As part of the event, I was able to run a discussion with a couple of voices from the company
0:37.6	who were helping businesses navigate the challenges that AI is presenting to us.
0:42.2	I was joined by Jerry Ting.
0:43.5	Jerry's the founder of Eversort and now, after eight years founding that business, teachers
0:48.5	at Harvard Law School and he's now a senior leader at Workday.
0:51.6	And the other contributor was Angelique DeVries Shippering, and she's the Emilia
0:56.1	president for Workday.
0:57.6	The conversation was fascinating for me in a few ways.
1:00.0	Firstly, I think we can be so daunted by what AI represents and the opportunity and the
1:07.1	challenge it represents for our jobs, that this feels simple and easy to assimilate.
1:12.3	Secondly, because as I mentioned last week, after it finished, the conversations I had with the
1:16.4	audience suggested that there's a lot of businesses who've barely started their own journeys.
1:21.1	Look, here's the challenge at the moment.
1:22.7	I think the discussion at the event that you're going to hear today described a future
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