Google is launching a one-stop Gemini agent for your work tasks

At its Gemini at Work event on Thursday, Google announced a universal Gemini agent inside the Gemini Enterprise app. Workers can chat with it and hand it tasks from one interface, and it runs in the cloud in the background, keeping the same context across connected devices.

It works inside Workspace apps like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Calendar, and it can be reached from phones, desktops, the web, and third-party tools including Slack and Microsoft 365. Google says it can call job-specific sub-agents, automatically pick the model best suited to a task, and operate as a coworker agent with a dedicated identity and its own agents.company.com email address.

For now it is limited to enterprise customers in private preview. Google's consumer Gemini Spark agent, launched in May, does similar cross-app work but lives in a separate interface in the Gemini app.

There is a real case for this. A lot of office work is stitching: pulling a number from a sheet, drafting the email about it, finding the doc, booking the follow-up. An agent that holds context across all of that, on whatever device someone happens to be using, could save meaningful time. Reaching into Slack and Microsoft 365 rather than only Google's own apps is the right call; work does not live in one vendor's suite.

The detail that made us stop is the coworker identity. An agent with its own company email address is no longer just a feature inside a person's account. It is an actor in the organization. It can receive messages, send them, and presumably be granted access like an employee. That raises practical questions the launch coverage does not yet address: who approves what it can touch, how its actions are logged, and who answers for a mistake it makes in someone's name or its own.

The automatic model selection deserves a look too. Letting the system pick the model for each job is convenient, but it also makes behavior harder to predict and audit. For regulated industries, knowing which model handled which task is not a nice-to-have.

If this pattern scales, companies will have growing numbers of non-human colleagues with inboxes and permissions. Done well, that is a productivity gain. Done carelessly, it is a sprawling new attack surface and a fog of accountability. The private preview stage is the moment to get identity, permissions and audit trails right.

Our read: a sensible direction with a genuinely useful core, and the coworker-identity idea is where the governance work has to happen. I'm watching what controls Google ships when this opens beyond preview.

Google has been building toward a single assistant that can answer questions and do work from one window. This enterprise agent and the consumer Gemini Spark agent currently live in separate interfaces, which suggests the company is still working out how its business and consumer agent products fit together.