What happens when you hand the routine work to AI? And is what’s left worth more than what you handed over?
At a recent industry conference, we asked payroll professionals to vote on where AI belongs in payroll and where it doesn’t. The results surprised the room. Some tasks that felt personal turned out to be clear candidates for AI. Others resisted a clean handover no matter how capable the AI tools get.
For professionals advising small business clients, the line between “AI can handle this” and “a person needs to own this” has real consequences. This session helps you find where that line sits in your own work.
What you’ll learn:
- Categorize payroll tasks by automation readiness: Distinguish which tasks are suited to AI-led processing versus those that require human judgment.
- Identify where compliance risk requires human sign-off: Recognize the grey zone in Canadian payroll compliance, where AI can monitor and surface changes but a professional must interpret, decide, and remain accountable.
- See where your instincts land alongside your peers: Through a live voting exercise, explore how your judgments about AI and human ownership compare with others in the room, then use the conversation that follows to pressure-test where your practice may need to pivot.
*Note: We cannot confirm that this will meet the requirements set by all designation authorities.
