Google says its Gemini AI agent can now work on behalf of group of people in office

Google is giving its workplace AI a bigger role with a new Gemini agent that can work not only for an individual employee but also on behalf of a group of people or a specific role inside an organisation.

Gemini agent can serve as a “team member, where it works on behalf of a group of people, like a project manager within a team, or on behalf of a specific role in an organisation, like an analyst in your finance department,” Google said in a blog post.

Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the Gemini agent is being positioned as a single AI system that can answer questions, handle knowledge work, create media and write and run code. Google says users can give the agent an objective rather than explain every step needed to complete it.

Gemini can now work like a team member

The agent can take on tasks that would normally require coordination between several people. For instance, if a manager emails an employee asking for the latest project update as a slide deck, Gemini can recognise the task and offer a one-click option to take care of it.

It can also handle meeting coordination. An employee could ask Gemini to arrange a meeting with the usual team of regional event leads without giving it their names or email addresses. The agent can work out who those people are using the membership of the relevant chat space and previous conversations, check their calendars and start an email thread to find a suitable time, including when people outside the organisation are involved.

Google says teams can also create "coworker agents" with defined roles and their own identities. These agents can have company email addresses and persistent storage, while only accessing information provided by the user or team. Gemini can create temporary sub-agents as well to deal with different parts of a complicated assignment.

The agent runs in the cloud, allowing work that takes hours or days to continue even after an employee closes their laptop. It can be accessed through web, Android, iOS, Windows and Mac, as well as workplace services such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Slack.

Gemini can also connect with business tools and databases, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Git, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres and Snowflake. Companies can create their own tools and reusable skills for the agent to use.

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Google's announcement comes at a time when AI is increasingly being used to perform workplace tasks. But research from Anthropic suggests that the impact is likely to remain uneven across professions.

The company analysed real-world usage of its Claude AI and compared it with what AI could theoretically do. Its "observed exposure" measure looks at how much of a job is actually being carried out with AI, rather than simply what AI systems are capable of doing.

Anthropic found that several professions continue to have low AI exposure because their work involves physical activity, real-world interaction or responsibilities that are difficult for current AI systems to perform. These include jobs in agriculture, construction, installation and repair, transportation, personal care and food services.

Agricultural workers, for example, may need to prune trees or operate farm machinery, while legal professionals representing clients in court still need to be physically present. Such requirements limit how much current language models can take over.

By comparison, some digital occupations already show much greater AI involvement. Computer programmers have around 75 per cent of their tasks showing AI involvement, while customer service representatives and data entry keyers are also among the more exposed roles.

Anthropic's research also found a significant gap between AI's potential and its current use. In computer and mathematics occupations, AI could theoretically assist with nearly 94 per cent of tasks, but actual Claude usage covers only about 33 per cent.

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