Screen-print illustration of the Clive River at the edge of town — Illustration generated with AI.

39.59° S, 176.92° E. Hastings District, Hawke's Bay (Te Matau-a-Māui)

Microsoft Copilot training in Clive

Clive’s shop and visitor work creates practical file-to-message tasks. Copilot training can start with an approved product workbook or river information file and end with a checked customer reply.^1,3,4

Enquire Read the local brief

57.5% of Clive’s employed residents are in desk-based roles.

	A	B	C	D
1	Role type	Clive	NZ	Diff (pts)
2	Desk-based	57.5%	63.6%	−6.2
3	People-facing	9.8%	9.0%	+0.8
4	Hands-on	33.1%	27.4%	+5.7
5	Employed residents	1,107	2,622,534

About 636 people in desk-based roles. 2023 Census, counted where people live.

Rows 2 to 4: ANZSCO major groups 1, 2, 5, 6 / 4 / 3, 7, 8. Stats NZ 2023 Census, employed residents. Proxy per ILO 2025; not a forecast.

Residents: 1,9902023 Census
Business locations: 180Feb 2025, +22.4% since 2020
Employees (jobs here): 330at local businesses, Feb 2025
Self-employed or employers: 17.9%of employed residents, NZ 16.2%
To Napier: 9 kmstraight line

What AI means for work in Clive

5 findings from Stats NZ data for Clive, and what each means for Microsoft Copilot training.

Workforce by occupation group, Clive against New Zealand

57.5% of employed residents in Clive work in desk-based roles, against 63.6% across New Zealand. The difference is mostly technicians and trades workers: 17.1% of employed residents here, against 12.5% nationally. Size the licences to the desk-based roles rather than headcount. A pilot with office, scheduling and management staff shows value before you pay for everyone.

Employed residents by occupation group, Clive and New Zealand, 2023 Census
Occupation group	People	Clive	NZ
Managers	168	15.2%	18.3%
Professionals	294	26.6%	26.8%
Technicians and trades workers	189	17.1%	12.5%
Community and personal service workers	108	9.8%	9.0%
Clerical and administrative workers	120	10.8%	10.8%
Sales workers	54	4.9%	7.8%
Machinery operators and drivers	69	6.2%	5.9%
Labourers	108	9.8%	9.0%

Desk-based = ANZSCO major groups 1, 2, 5 and 6 (managers, professionals, clerical and administrative, sales): roles where AI assistance is most applicable. Broad proxy informed by ILO 2025; not measured adoption or an employment forecast. People-facing = major group 4. Hands-on = major groups 3, 7 and 8.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people; ILO, Generative AI and jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposure (2025).

Hospitality: 19.6% of local jobs, 2.7× the national share

Top employer: hospitality, 65 jobs (19.6%). Heat cells mark industries over-represented against New Zealand. Plan Copilot use cases by department in the largest employers first.

Share of paid jobs by industry, Clive and New Zealand, February 2025
Industry	Jobs	Share	NZ	×
Hospitality	65	19.6%	7.2%	2.7×
Construction	55	16.6%	8.2%	2.0×
Retail	50	15.1%	9.3%	1.6×
Education	50	15.1%	8.5%	1.8×
Health and social care	40	12.1%	12.0%	1.0×
Professional services	21	6.3%	8.3%	0.8×
Transport and warehousing	15	4.5%	4.2%	1.1×
Other services	15	4.5%	3.5%	1.3×
Arts and recreation	9	2.7%	2.0%	1.4×
Farming, forestry, fishing	6	1.8%	4.8%	0.4×

Share of paid employees at business locations in the area, by ANZSIC06 industry division. × is the local share divided by the national share.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Business locations +22.4% and employees −28.3%, 2020 to 2025

Paid employees 460 (2020) to 330 (2025), −28.3% against +5.0% nationally. Business locations 147 to 180. Largest job gain: hospitality (+35). Largest loss: admin and support services (−190).

Business locations: 147180 in 2025, from 2020; +22.4% NZ +9.6%
Employees (jobs here): 460330 in 2025, from 2020; −28.3% NZ +5.0%

Change in employees by industry in Clive, February 2020 to February 2025
Industry	2020	2025	Change
Hospitality	30	65	+35
Education	35	50	+15
Professional services	9	21	+12
Admin and support services	190	0	−190
Farming, forestry, fishing	15	6	−9
Transport and warehousing	21	15	−6

Geographic units (business locations) and paid employees, February of each year. Small counts are randomly rounded by Stats NZ, so small changes can be noise.

Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.

Remote readiness: work at home and household internet

On-site sessions, at your workplace, usually suit teams here better than remote ones. We come to you.

14.4%

Mainly worked from home, census day 2023

New Zealand 17.7%

92.5%

Households with internet access

New Zealand 90.5%

Main means of travel to work on census day, and access to the internet in occupied private dwellings.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people.

Self-employed and employers: 17.9% (New Zealand 16.2%)

A high share of small operators. Copilot suits organisations on Microsoft 365 Business plans, so check your plan before training; Copilot Chat may already be included.

17.9%

self-employed or employers

New Zealand 16.2%

Employed residents whose status in employment is employer, or self-employed without employees.

Source: Stats NZ, 2023 Census, usually resident employed people.

Copilot for Clive’s largest employers

Where Hōhepa information spans Clive and Poraiti, a file owner should approve the scope before staff summarise it. A separate reviewer can verify the final customer wording.¹

Dairy and horticulture

Use a sample Excel product register to draft an Outlook stock response, checking each item against the sheet.¹

Visitor services

Summarise approved SharePoint river information in Word, then have a local staff member verify the guide.^3,4

About Clive

Clive is a small riverside town in Hastings District between Hastings and Napier, about 10 km from Hastings city centre. Official tourism describes a mix of retail shops and eateries, outdoor activities, and a well-used river walkway; Te Awa o Mokotūāraro follows about 7 km of the former lower Ngaruroro course. Hōhepa's organic, biodynamic and regenerative dairy and horticultural enterprise operates across Clive and Poraiti, with surplus produce sold through its Clive shop. The Council's 2017-2021 community plan put the river, community connection and regular events at the centre of its vision.^1,3,4,5

Microsoft Copilot ideas grounded in Clive

Organic dairy and horticulture

Reconcile farm and shop stock notes
A farm or shop manager can use Copilot in Excel to organise approved harvest, dispatch and shop stock sheets, then use Outlook to draft a handover for staff. The manager checks quantities against source records before acting on the summary.¹

Why here: Hōhepa sells surplus farm produce through its Clive shop, so farm-to-shop handovers are a grounded local example.
- Copilot in Excel
- Copilot in Outlook
Prepare a safe task briefing from approved notes
A team lead can use Copilot in Word to reshape an existing, approved task procedure into a plain-language shift briefing and a short set of discussion slides. A supervisor checks every safety instruction against the current procedure before sharing it.¹

Why here: Hōhepa describes dairy and horticultural work across its Clive and Poraiti farm sites.
- Copilot in Word
- Copilot in PowerPoint
Turn farm meeting actions into owners and dates
A farm team can use Copilot in Teams to summarise a meeting transcript into draft action owners and follow-ups, then put the reviewed tasks into a Loop page. Staff confirm responsibilities and dates before the page becomes the working record.¹

Why here: The source describes Hōhepa's Clive farm as part of a two-location land enterprise that provides meaningful work opportunities.
- Copilot in Teams
- Loop

Retail, food and river-based visitor services

Draft a verified Clive visitor information pack
A small retailer or eatery can use Copilot in Word to combine its own approved opening details with public route notes, then ask PowerPoint to shape a short visitor briefing for staff. Staff verify trail access, timings and current business details before distribution.⁴

Why here: Hawke's Bay Tourism lists Clive shops and eateries alongside watersports and river-side walking and cycling.
- Copilot in Word
- Copilot in PowerPoint
Coordinate cross-business event information
A local business group can collect participating businesses' approved event details in Teams and use Copilot to find gaps or conflicting information in a Loop planning page. A named organiser confirms permissions and final details before anything is published.⁵

Why here: Clive's community plan identifies regular events as a way for local businesses and residents to connect, while noting the river as a village asset.
- Copilot in Teams
- Loop
- Copilot Chat
Answer trail and shop questions from public sources
A business could build a Copilot Studio agent grounded in approved public business and route information to draft answers to routine visitor questions. Staff review changes to access, opening hours and river conditions before keeping the answers live.³

Why here: The official river listing describes the Water Ride and Landscapes Ride connections beside Te Awa o Mokotūāraro.
- Copilot Studio agents
- Microsoft Graph grounding on company files

What Clive does

Organic dairy and horticulture. Hōhepa describes its land enterprise as operating at Clive and Poraiti, with regenerative dairy and horticultural production and meaningful farm work opportunities for people it supports. Surplus fruit, vegetables, cheese, yoghurt and milk are sold through its Clive and Taradale shops. Its farm-wide figures are not a Clive-only employment or output estimate.¹ Named in public sources: Hōhepa Hawke's Bay¹.
Retail, food and river-based visitor services. Hawke's Bay Tourism describes Clive's retail shops and eateries, along with watersports on the river and walking and cycling routes that connect toward the coast. That establishes a local visitor-service setting, but the sources reviewed did not provide town-level employment or business counts for this mix.^3,4

Organisations are named for local context only. No relationship with them is implied.

Training venues in and near Clive

Most training happens at your own workplace. For a public workshop day or an off-site session, these places hire out rooms.

Clive Community Hall²

The Council lists a direct booking contact and describes rural halls as community meeting places. The page gives no capacity, layout or AV/Wi-Fi information; confirm suitability for 20-40 people with the local hall custodian.

162 Main Road, Clive

From the venues’ own public listings. No booking or relationship is implied.

In the local business news

21 Nov 2025
HBRC erosion protection work completed at Clive riverbank Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke's Bay Regional Council reported that a contractor completed stabilisation along about 250 metres of the Farndon Road river edge and reinstated the stopbank. The item identifies the contractor and community partner involved in this local river infrastructure work.
8 Aug 2025
Clive resident calls for river dredging BayBuzz / Local Democracy Reporting
Local Democracy Reporting covered a Clive resident's call for dredging before further bank work, alongside HBRC's account of the costs, sediment questions and future funding decision. The story records an active local discussion about maintaining the river used for recreation and visitor activity.

Around Clive

Hawke's Bay landscape taken on walking trail in Clive June 2024 by Jakob | TheLoyalOrder, CC BY-SA 4.0.

About 9 km in a straight line to Napier, the nearest large centre. Dots are towns covered on this site.

Hastings District and Microsoft Copilot training across Hawke's Bay, or Napier. Distances are straight-line.

A Clive worksheet could identify which shared file is authorised, who owns it and who checks the outgoing answer.^1,3

Public Microsoft Copilot workshops near Clive

There is no public Copilot workshop near Clive on the calendar yet. Register interest below and we will tell you when one is scheduled. Organisations can book private training for their own staff at any time.

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