Work & CareersWorkplaceAIPrint articleHow these accountants are using AI to take more time off workEuan BlackWork and careers reporterUpdated Feb 18, 2025 – 8.36am, first published at 5.00amSaveLog 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? LoginGrant Thornton employees are saving an average of almost 3.5 hours a week getting generative AI to draft emails, provide meeting notes and help with research tasks, allowing a growing share of staff to take an extra day off each fortnight.The accounting and consulting firm adopted a flexible nine-day fortnight last year, without reducing staff pay, after a 12-month trial coincided with record-high productivity, employee retention and profits.Loading...Euan Black is a work and careers reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Email Euan at euan.black@afr.comSaveLog 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 articleIntroducing your NewsfeedFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreAIWorkplace cultureAccountingWorkforce Summit Executive EducationPowered byLatest In WorkplaceFetching latest articlesMost Viewed In Work and careersThe Australian Financial Review Magazine‘If Labor’s campaign is that I’m horrible, they’ll lose in a landslide’Phillip CooreyThe woman who wants to see every one of us in an AkubraSports stars keep shifting their watch brand allegiancesBOSS Financial ReviewFour women who started businesses after the age of 45Sally PattenWhat happened when Domain learnt it spent $36m a year on meetingsThe country’s highest-paid directors revealedLife & LeisureCycling helps this COO to leave her work stress out on the footpathLife & LeisureAfter more than a decade, BMW has perfected the art of EV variantsHow to mark a milestone birthday in style at a French manorRich ListProperty billionaire Nick Andrianakos dies in GreeceYolanda RedrupCannon-Brookes describes ‘deep internal conflict’ over his private jetOscar Piastri on the secret of his $41m-a year success
