Subj : Yahoo Japan wants all its 11,000 employees to use Gen AI to doubl
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Sun Jul 20 2025 21:00:09

Yahoo Japan wants all its 11,000 employees to use Gen AI to double their 
productivity by 2028  a sign of things to come?

Date:
Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:47:00 +0000

Description:
Yahoo Japan mandates AI for all staff to double productivity by 2028, 
reflecting a growing trend of tech-driven workplace restructuring and 
automation.

FULL STORY
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Japan is betting big that mandatory AI use can unlock workplace innovation 
The companys plan starts with automating 30% of daily tasks, like meetings 
and documents Internal tools like SeekAI will handle expenses, research 
prompts, and summarizing meeting notes 

Yahoo Japan is taking a bold step by requiring all 11,000 of its employees to 
integrate generative AI into their daily work, aiming to double productivity 
by 2028. 

The company, which also operates LINE, plans to make AI tools a standard part 
of tasks like research, meeting documentation, expense management, and even 
competitive analysis. 

The idea is to shift employee focus from routine output to higher-level 
thinking and communication by letting AI handle the groundwork and create 
continuous innovation. Targeting the 30% first 

The rollout begins in the more universal aspects of office life: areas like 
searching, drafting, and routine documentation, which Yahoo Japan estimates 
take up about 30% of its employees time. 

The company has already developed internal tools like SeekAI to manage tasks 
such as expense claims and data searches using prompt templates. 

AI will also be used to help create agendas, summarize meetings, and 
proofread reports, thereby giving staff more room to concentrate on 
decision-making and discussion. 

This move might seem extreme, but it follows a broader trend of companies 
trying to harness AI as a productivity tool rather than just a cost-cutting 
one. 

Yahoo Japan's strategy assumes that automation is not just an efficiency tool 
but a workplace standard, but there is growing evidence that treating AI as a 
complete replacement for human workers may be shortsighted. 

A recent report by Orgvue claims, more than half of UK businesses which 
replaced workers with AI now regret that decision . This speaks to a crucial 
distinction: while AI can support and streamline, it often falls short in 
areas requiring nuance, empathy, or real-world context. 

In this light, Yahoo Japans model, one that promotes AI as a support layer 
rather than a substitute, might prove more sustainable. 

This is certainly a sign of things to come, and from my perspective, 
generative AI is not here to erase jobs, even although there are reports of 
people losing jobs to AI in some regions. 

AI should only shift what jobs look like by removing repetitive tasks and 
freeing up space for critical thinking and creativity, where human input 
remains indispensable. 

Yahoo Japans approach, if implemented with care and flexibility, might help 
shape that shift in a more inclusive and less disruptive way. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/yahoo-japan-wants-all-its-11-000-employees-to-us
e-gen-ai-to-double-their-productivity-by-2028-is-it-a-sign-of-things-to-come


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