- Yahoo Japan is betting big that mandatory AI use can unlock the workplace Innovation
- The company’s plan starts by automating 30% of daily tasks that meet and documents
- Internal tools like Seekai will handle expenses, research inscriptions and summarize meeting notes
Yahoo Japan takes a bold step by demanding that all 11,000 of its employees integrate generative AI into their daily work for the purpose of double productivity in 2028.
The company, which also runs line, plans to make AI tools a standard part of tasks such as research, meeting documentation, spending management and even competitive analysis.
The idea is to change employee focus from routine output to thinking and communication at the higher level by letting AI deal with the foundation and creating continuous innovation.
Targeting of 30% first
The development begins in the more universal aspects of office life: areas such as search, preparation and routine documentation, which Yahoo Japan estimates that they record approx. 30% of his employees’ time.
The company has already developed internal tools such as Seekai to manage tasks such as spending requirements and data searches using quick templates.
AI will also be used to help create agendas, summarize meetings and proofreading reports, thereby giving the staff more space to concentrate on decision making and discussion.
This step may seem extreme, but it follows a broader trend for companies trying to utilize AI as a productivity tool rather than just a cost -saving.
Yahoo Japan’s strategy assumes that automation is not only an efficiency tool but a workplace standard, but there is growing evidence that treatment of AI as a complete replacement for human workers can be short -sighted.
A recent report from Orgvue claims that more than half of British companies that replaced workers with AI are now regretting this decision. This speaks to a crucial distinction: While AI can support and streamline, it often comes short in areas that require nuance, empathy or context in the real world.
In this light, Yahoo Japan’s model, one that promotes AI as a support layer rather than a replacement, can prove to be more sustainable.
This is definitely a sign of the coming things, and from my perspective, generative AI is not here to delete jobs, even though there are reports of people losing jobs to AI in some regions.
AI should only move what jobs look like by removing repeated tasks and freeing up space for critical thinking and creativity, where human input remains indispensable.
Yahoo Japan’s approach, if implemented with care and flexibility, can help shape this shift in a more inclusive and less disruptive way.
Via PC Watch
