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Amid all the current "noise about technology", organisations should be considering how to upgrade their "human operating systems", by changing their workplace rituals, according to work futurist Dom Price.

Price told the recent Dayforce Summit in Sydney that "human potential is a thing that we should really be talking more about", as opposed to AI, and that "the companies that tap into that will have a demonstrable difference".

Price spent 12 years at Atlassian, helping to scale the organisation from 500 to 16,000 employees, and recently joined boutique advisory Be Luminous as a partner. He says he observes many organisations "running a human operating system that smells and looks and feels a lot like Windows 95".

"Does anyone remember Clippy? We've all got a Clippy in the office," he says.

Referring to new generations in the workforce, political instability, changes in technology and supply chain issues, Price notes that, "we've got a whole lot of stuff going on in the world that means we need a nimble human operating system of how we work"...