Canadian companies are using artificial intelligence to reduce employee stress and burnout, according to a report featuring two examples. Evelynn Ratcliffe, a partner with home building and renovation company Alair Homes in Toronto, oversees 12 employees who use AI in their daily jobs. Her team uses Microsoft Copilot for tasks such as writing emails, prioritizing to-do lists, invoice management, scheduling, and transcribing and summarizing meeting minutes. Ratcliffe says the tool has decreased stress and mental load, noting her “invisible list” of lower-priority tasks went away. In Vancouver, Sneha Sandil, a restaurant manager at the Indian restaurant chain Sula, says her boss custom-built an AI-powered tool to reduce administrative burden. The tool makes schedules, communicates with customers, calculates tip outs, creates updated menus, and helps with inventory and ordering by tracking how much of a particular dish has been sold. Sandil said she used to spend a lot of time making the schedule and could not focus on other things like marketing or growing the business. Ratcliffe acknowledged that AI “probably does replace some jobs,” but added it also creates other ones and improves the quality and productivity of existing jobs.