Productivity Unleashed
The pipelines of progress are clogged. BusinessDesk investigates why New Zealand’s productivity engine keeps stalling, and what it will take to get it firing again.
Productivity Unleashed
Artificial Intelligence
The risks behind AI’s shine
Unplanned costs, security flaws and weak returns cloud agentic AI rollouts.
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Productivity Unleashed
Artificial Intelligence
Your next co-worker won’t eat or sleep
NZ businesses are starting to plug AI agents into everyday operations.
Productivity Unleashed
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Lab was previously based in Napier; new operation is in Rolleston.
Productivity Unleashed
Economy
Productivity Unleashed: The $113b 'What-If'
The quiet tax of underperformance: $113b in lost output.
Dileepa Fonseka
Senior Correspondent
Dileepa Fonseka is a journalist covering the political economy and issues that run across business and government. He has provided commentary, features and analysis on a variety of topics including housing, trade, infrastructure, immigration, the digital economy, local government and supply chains. Dileepa was previously a senior business journalist for Stuff, a political reporter at Newsroom, a council reporter at the Dominion Post/Stuff, an infrastructure reporter at Stuff’s Auckland newsroom, and has been a finalist at the Voyager Media Awards four times, including in 2023 for business journalist of the year and in 2021 for reporter of the year. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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