Signal Agents are being named individually and floated as future taxable workers

Summary

Deloitte reports that some organisations have begun giving individual names to their AI agents. The purpose is to track how much each agent contributes to productivity. Behind the practice lies a recognition that digital workers may eventually be taxed in a way similar to human employees. The observation appears within the report's discussion of life cycle management for agents, which will need ongoing training updates, redeployment to priority areas and possibly retirement planning. It forms part of a broader argument that agents represent a new form of labour requiring management approaches adapted from human resources. The report cautions, however, that pushing the digital-worker analogy too far could misalign agents with work better left to people.