Most businesses know AI is changing the way they work, but few have a clear picture of what it takes to commit to it. This is the honest account of what it took for Employment Hero to go AI-first and everything you need to do the same.

In 2025, Employment Hero formally committed to AI as a strategic priority, changing how our entire team works day to day. Whether you’re five people or 500, you don’t need a perfect plan to get started. 

What’s inside the AI adoption blueprint?

Here’s everything we learned, plus practical tools and templates you can use from day one.

• Why we made the commitment: the business case we built, the risks we addressed, and the structural changes we made to get serious.
• From curious to capable: making it official, building peer momentum, the training we ran, and what we’d do differently.
• An AI policy that unlocks your team: how we built ours, which tools we chose, and why a clear policy speeds adoption rather than slowing it down.
• The new hiring playbook: what we now look for in candidates, how we test for learning agility, and what’s changed in our hiring process.
• From our team, to yours: practical tips from our marketing team and people across the business who’ve made AI part of how they work.
• Ready, set, roll out: the four phases of a company-wide rollout and your Monday morning checklist.

We wrote the map and now it’s yours

You don’t need a perfect plan. You just need to get started. 

Embedding AI means finding what works for your business and putting a few things in place so your people can use it well. 

Here’s how you can, from us to you.

Download the AI Adoption Blueprint now by filling out the form.