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AI adoption in Australia, by the numbers your board will ask for.
Adoption rates by business size, the skills that are in shortage, what your staff are already doing with AI, and where the value actually lands. Sourced, dated, and built to be shared.
Adoption · Australia · 7 min read
Twelve percent of Australian businesses use AI. The gap is size, not sector.
Large firms tripled adoption in three years. Small firms are stuck at eleven percent. The difference is not the technology, it is the people around it.Adoption · Australia12%12% of Australian businesses used AI in 2024–25. Large 35%, medium 22%, small and micro 11%.Source · ABS, Business Characteristics Survey 2024–25, 2026Shortages · Australia29%29% of assessed occupations are in national shortage: 293 of 1,022. Professionals 122, trades 99.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Occupation Shortage List, Oct 2025, 2025AI use by business size, AustraliaLarge firms tripled adoption in three years. Small firms barely moved.What your staff are doing alreadyUse is ahead of policy, training and trust.People · Governance · 6 min readYour staff are already using AI. Half of them are hiding it.In Australia, 51% of employees have passed off AI output as their own and 44% have used it against policy. Only a quarter have had any training. The fix is not a ban.Shortages · Hiring · 7 min readHiring in a shortage: 29% of occupations, and the skills that change by 2030.Nearly three in ten assessed Australian occupations are in shortage. Employers say the skills they need will change by 39% in five years. You cannot hire your way out of both at once.Statistics library
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Adoption · Australia12%12% of Australian businesses used AI in 2024–25. Large 35%, medium 22%, small and micro 11%.Source · ABS, Business Characteristics Survey 2024–25, 2026Hiring+36%more non-AI job ads posted by Australian firms that adopted AI than by comparable non-adopters (4,000+ firms).Source · CSIRO, research into firms adopting AI, Apr 2026, 2026Shortages · Australia29%29% of assessed occupations are in national shortage: 293 of 1,022. Professionals 122, trades 99.Source · Jobs and Skills Australia, Occupation Shortage List, Oct 2025, 2025Shadow AI · Australia51%51% of Australian employees have presented AI-generated content as their own; 44% use AI against workplace policy.Source · KPMG and University of Melbourne, Trust in AI global study, 2025, 2025Training · Australia24%24% of Australians report any formal or informal AI training. Only 36% are willing to trust AI systems.Source · KPMG and University of Melbourne, Trust in AI global study, 2025, 2025Value95%95% of enterprise generative AI pilots produced little or no measurable P&L return.Source · MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide, 2025, 2025Barriers63%63% of employers name skills gaps as the biggest barrier to business transformation.Source · World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, Jan 2025, 2025Workforce plans41%41% of employers plan to reduce workforce where AI automates tasks; 77% plan to reskill and upskill.Source · World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, Jan 2025, 2025Leadership25%25% of employees say their organisation has communicated a clear plan for integrating AI.Source · Gallup, AI at work indicator, May 2026, 2026
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