Amazon just made it official: if you want to grow your career, you'd better be using AI.

In a company-wide email sent to staff at Ring, Amazon’s smart home division, founder Jamie Siminoff announced a sharp turn in internal promotion policy. From now on, employees must show how they’ve used generative AI or other artificial intelligence tools to improve operational efficiency or customer service in order to be considered for a promotion.

“Employees seeking promotion will now be expected to show how they’ve used generative AI - or other AI tools - to improve operational efficiency or customer service,” Siminoff wrote, according to Fortune .

The message is simple:

Do more with less.

And prove it - with impact, not intuition.

Meetings are work. So start measuring them.

In many teams, meetings take up 30-50% of the workweek. Yet few can say which ones were actually worth it.If you want to optimise operations, start where most time disappears: meetings.

Ulla helps teams see what’s really happening inside meeting culture:

• How often people are invited - and how often they actually contribute
• Who’s overloaded with invites, yet barely involved
• Which conversations drive action - and which just drain time

For example, Ulla might show that one team member sits through five meetings a day but is only addressed once. Maybe that one question could’ve been asked in a message - instead of blocking out 30 minutes.

These are the blind spots that slow teams down.

And they’re exactly what operational efficiency looks like in practice.

📌 Ulla gives managers the data they need to spot inefficiencies, protect focus time, and prove AI value where it counts.

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