Haiilo hires the most boring colleague in the world

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — UK

Date: 29/04/2026

Haiilo, the employee experience platform, today announced the appointment of AVA, widely believed to be (and self‑described as) the most boring colleague in the world.

This strategic hire comes as organizations find themselves increasingly overwhelmed by digital fatigue and growing disengagement. Employee engagement hit a decade-low crisis point in 2025, with only 21% of global workers feeling engaged and 77% disengaged or actively disengaged. Haiilo’s solution is to hire someone who experiences near‑clinical delight when confronted with administrative drudgery.

A hire nobody asked for, but everyone will love

“Most organisations hire for creativity, vision, leadership,” said Haiilo CEO, Andrew Avanessian. “We decided to hire someone who gets really excited about renaming duplicate files, deleting outdated documents, and summarising meeting notes. It felt time.”

AVA’s responsibilities, which experts agree are “objectively tedious”, include:

• Tagging content no one else wants to touch
• Reading 47‑page policy updates “just for fun”
• Cleaning up version histories 
• Answering the same questions every day
• Finding documents people lost three systems ago

“I’m thrilled to join Haiilo,” said AVA in their first official statement. “Yesterday I reorganised 812 tags. Today I’m hoping to break that record.” Haiilo has confirmed this is the most excited statement any colleague has ever given internally.

A crucial addition to Haiilo’s team

While AVA’s enthusiasm for document searches may be questionable, their impact aligns neatly with Haiilo’s mission to simplify the digital workplace and support employees with clarity, not noise.

AVA will work quietly behind the scenes to keep information structured, searchable, and delivered to people when they actually need it, ultimately helping employees stay focused, engaged, and in flow.

A new standard for tedium

Haiilo emphasises that while AVA may be the most boring colleague in the world, this hire represents a step forward in the battle against workplace entropy – where information disappears into the void and communication, knowledge, and tools bring noise and not clarity.

“AVA’s ability to read everything and get excited about none of it is… astonishing,” says Avenessian. “They even asked for longer documents. That was alarming at first.”