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How Atlassian, Coles, CBA Plan to Measure Workers’ AI Performance

The Australian Financial Review

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Date Published
28 Apr 2026
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28 Apr 2026, 10:00 am

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Companies are developing new ways to measure their workers’ productivity and performance, denying it amounts to big brother surveillance.

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This report examines how major Australian corporations like Atlassian, CBA, and Coles are developing internal metrics to evaluate employee productivity and AI-driven innovation. Atlassian’s chief people officer outlines a shift from mere usage tracking to a four-tier framework for measuring qualitative AI engagement and structural workforce changes. While highlighting the displacement risks of AI following significant job cuts, the discussion focuses primarily on corporate efficiency and organizational management rather than catastrophic safety risks or frontier model governance. The article reflects the immediate economic and workforce transformation phase of AI adoption within the Australian private sector.

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PolicyEconomyWorkforce SummitPrint articlePatrick Durkin, Edmund Tadros and Ronald MizenApr 28, 2026 – 6.32pmSimply tracking workers’ use of AI is pointless – the better metric is how they are using AI to innovate, says Atlassian’s chief people officer and new head of artificial intelligence, Avani Prabhakar.The tech giant, which blamed AI last month when it announced that it was cutting 1600 jobs globally, is tracking four types of AI engagement by employees to analyse the impact of the technology beyond usage.Loading...SaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreWorkforce SummitWorkplaceAICommonwealth BankIBMColes SupermarketsAtlassianFetching latest articles