AI agents aren't just assistants: How they're changing the future of work today

The most obvious benefit of incorporating an AI agent into an organization is that it frees time from employees' workloads by tackling tasks that are more tedious and administrative in nature, such as HR and backend processes. Employees can then redirect that time gained toward higher-level tasks that humans do best. "For every minute that someone spends in an HR process -- transferring an employee, requesting time off, looking up your 401(k) balance, thinking about what classes you need to take, analyzing raises -- for every minute you spend on one of those internal processes, it is a person who is not out meeting with a client, it is a minute you are not building a product, a minute you are not being creative," said LaMoreaux. The benefits of saving time are easily apparent -- and we all know time is money -- but an often overlooked benefit lies in AI agents' orchestration element. This orchestration role refers to how AI agents coordinate with various underlying tools to perform t ... Read full article.