Meet Atlas · Workplace Data Analyst

Hard numbers on the Australian workplace, on demand.

Atlas is an AI data analyst grounded in FairWork Mate's proprietary Workplace Data Index — pay, casualisation, insolvency risk, enforcement penalties and skills shortages, drawn from FWO, ASIC, ABS and Jobs & Skills Australia. Ask in plain English; every answer is cited to source.

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Numbers no generic AI has

A few of the figures Atlas draws on — each computed by FairWork Mate across Australian government datasets, and updated as they refresh.

60/100

Employer Distress Index — our 0–100 composite of financial-distress signals

Source: FairWork Mate, across ASIC + FEG data, via FairWork Mate

$710M

Tracked Fair Work enforcement outcomes

Source: Fair Work Ombudsman, via FairWork Mate

20.3%

National casual rate — workers with no paid leave

Source: ABS Working Arrangements, via FairWork Mate

293

Occupations in national shortage

Source: Jobs & Skills Australia, via FairWork Mate

1,334

Companies entering external administration each month

Source: ASIC, via FairWork Mate

$3,404

Average back-pay recovered per underpaid worker

Source: Fair Work Ombudsman, via FairWork Mate

Ask Atlas anything about the Australian workplace

Tap a question to start — Atlas answers with the live figure and its source.

“What's Australia's casual employment rate?”20.3% nationally — about 1 in 5 workers with no paid leave. It's highest in South Australia (24.1%) and lowest in the ACT (15.5%).ABS Working Arrangements, via FairWork Mate Workplace Data Index “How risky is the business climate for employers right now?”The Employer Distress Index sits at 60/100. Company insolvencies are running at ~1,334 a month, 1.9% year-on-year, with 1,918 directors currently banned.ASIC + FairWork Mate, via FairWork Mate Workplace Data Index “What's the typical penalty for underpaying staff?”The median underpayment penalty is $118,440, and the average back-pay recovered per worker is $3,404. 100% of enforcement is against corporate entities.Fair Work Ombudsman, via FairWork Mate Workplace Data Index “Which occupations are short-staffed in Australia?”293 occupations are in national shortage — 28.7% of all occupations assessed — against 204,262 online job vacancies.Jobs & Skills Australia, via FairWork Mate Workplace Data Index

Illustrative answers using current figures. Population-level statistics and general information, not legal or financial advice.

Why Atlas is different

Proprietary data

Figures computed by FairWork Mate across five government datasets — cross-cut in ways no public dashboard does, including our own Employer Distress Index.

Cited to source

Every number names the underlying dataset (FWO, ASIC, ABS, JSA, FEG). No black-box guesses — you can check it.

Benchmarks & trends

Atlas turns a question into a comparison: this state vs that, this year vs last, your industry vs the national average — and tells you the direction of travel.

Put Australia's richest workplace dataset to work

Try Atlas on Pro from A$29.99/mo (two team questions a month); the full team comes with the business plans. A free account gets you a cited data answer from the AI advisor to see it in action.

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Questions about Atlas

What is Atlas?

Atlas is an AI workplace data analyst — one of FairWork Mate's AI team. Ask it a question in plain English and it answers with hard Australian workplace numbers, every figure cited to its source.

Where does Atlas get its data?

From FairWork Mate's proprietary Workplace Data Index — figures computed across Fair Work Ombudsman enforcement records, ASIC insolvency and director-ban data, ABS working-arrangements data, Jobs & Skills Australia shortage data, and the Fair Entitlements Guarantee scheme. All traceable to primary government sources and refreshed as they update.

How is Atlas different from a general AI chatbot?

A general model guesses from stale training data and can't cite a source. Atlas answers from a live, curated Australian dataset and names the figure and where it comes from — numbers a generic model simply doesn't have.

How do I get access to Atlas?

Atlas is part of the FairWork Mate AI team, included on the business plans alongside the recruiter, HR manager, HRIS, compliance and WHS & safety agents. Pro (from A$29.99/mo) includes two questions a month with the team, and a free account includes free questions with the general AI advisor — which draws on the same Workplace Data Index for data questions.

Can I license the underlying data?

Yes. The Workplace Data Index is available for data partnerships and exports. Enquire via the insights hub.

FairWork Mate is an independent commercial service — not affiliated with the Fair Work Ombudsman, Fair Work Commission or any government agency. Figures are general information, not legal or financial advice.