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17.8% of Wellington employees work in government

Claude for Wellington public-service documents

Public-service writing needs a clear trail from evidence to decision. Practise using Claude to read long material, prepare review tables and identify what an accountable official must still resolve.

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Employees in government
50,020Wellington, February 2025
Share of Wellington employees
17.8%1 of 16 regions
Share across New Zealand
6.4%all regions, February 2025
Location quotient
2.78×more concentrated than nationally

Government in Wellington

The regional economic plan connects Wellington's capital role with government and associated professional work.1 Greater Wellington also lists offices in Wellington, Masterton and Upper Hutt.3 This gives a useful setting for document exercises shared across dispersed teams, while each agency retains its own approved tools, records and responsibilities.

TheColab can train at your agency or council workplace throughout the region, or teach remotely when staff work at different locations. Choose public material or a fabricated scenario for the first session. Policy staff, information managers and technical colleagues learn how to specify the evidence, test a draft and record the review that follows.

Paid employees in government went from 40,296 in February 2020 to 50,020 in February 2025 (+24.1%).

Share of paid employees in government, by region

Share of employees in government by region, Wellington highlighted
RegionChartShareNZ×
Wellington (this page) 17.8% 6.4% 2.8×
Manawatū-Whanganui 9.5% 6.4% 1.5×
Northland 6.2% 6.4% 1.0×
Waikato 5.0% 6.4% 0.8×
Canterbury 4.8% 6.4% 0.8×
Gisborne 4.8% 6.4% 0.7×
Marlborough 4.8% 6.4% 0.8×
Auckland 4.7% 6.4% 0.7×
Hawke's Bay 4.6% 6.4% 0.7×
Bay of Plenty 4.5% 6.4% 0.7×
Otago 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
Taranaki 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
West Coast 4.4% 6.4% 0.7×
Nelson 4.2% 6.4% 0.7×
Southland 3.6% 6.4% 0.6×
Tasman 2.1% 6.4% 0.3×

Paid employees at business locations in the region, February 2025. The tick marks the national share. × is the regional share divided by the national share.

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

Local context

  • The GCDO's 2025 survey reports national AI activity in supporting functions and identifies skills, privacy and security among barriers.2 It does not provide a Wellington deployment rate. The Public Service AI Framework recommends accountable human oversight and agency alignment, while remaining non-binding guidance.4 These sources help shape the checking habits in the workshop.2,4

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

Towns in Wellington

Each town page has its own figures and local brief.

Or see Claude training across Wellington.

Where Claude helps government teams

  • Build a source-based briefing workspace

    Put approved public reports and briefing instructions in a Claude Project. Projects hold uploaded knowledge for focused conversations.5 Ask for a draft that separates established facts, assumptions and options requiring a decision. Require a source passage for each material claim. The policy analyst checks the full reports before the briefing goes to the designated reviewer.

    • Policy analyst
    • Projects and long documents

  • Review themes in sample submissions

    Use fabricated submissions with stable reference labels. Ask Claude to organise themes in a document artifact and link each theme to the supplied examples. Artifacts support separate review documents.6 Check a selection against the originals and look for overlooked minority views. Keep interpretation of public input and any recommendation with the official responsible for the consultation.

    • Consultation officer
    • Long document review and artifacts

  • Explain an administrative process

    Create an artifact from an approved public procedure, with a simple explanation and diagram for review. Claude can produce documents and flowcharts as artifacts.6 Test whether a reader can identify the next step and escalation contact. The service owner checks conditions, exceptions and contact details before publishing anything that the public might rely on.

    • Public information editor
    • Document and diagram artifacts

  • Test a publication quality check

    A developer can use Claude Code to inspect a sample public-content repository and propose checks for missing references or broken links. Claude Code reads repositories, modifies files and executes commands.7 Review the code and test deliberately incomplete examples. Keep the check separate from deciding policy meaning, and pass any release through the agency's established technical approval process.

    • Public-service digital developer
    • Claude Code

Check a briefing claim through to its source

  1. Choose public reports and write a fictional decision question for the exercise.
  2. Ask Claude for a brief with the supporting passage beside each claim.
  3. Have the analyst read the source context and flag omissions or unsupported certainty.
  4. Retain the reviewed draft and its evidence trail in the agreed record location.

Courses

  1. 1Introductory

    Claude foundations workshop

    A hands-on first session for the whole team: prompts with real context, Projects, files, artifacts and the habit of checking answers.

  2. 2Organisation

    Claude team rollout

    Move from a few keen users to a whole team using Claude well: plan and seats, Projects structure, usage rules, connectors, Skills and champions.

  3. 3Advanced

    Claude Code and MCP for developers

    For developers and technical leads: agentic coding with Claude Code, team settings and permissions, building an MCP server, and the Claude API.

Government in other regions

Other industries in Wellington

See Claude for government and public services across New Zealand, or all training in Wellington.

Government in Wellington: questions

Does the Framework approve Claude for our agency?

The Framework provides direction and encourages alignment; it is not binding and does not replace your agency's tool decision.4 Confirm the permitted environment, material and task with the relevant internal owners before using work documents.

Can a council service team use these exercises?

Choose a public procedure with a service owner who can review its explanation. A generic library or facilities process gives staff a concrete writing task. Apply the council's own records and privacy requirements to the proposed workflow.

How do we keep submission analysis balanced?

Use stable labels, preserve the source text and check themes against individual examples. Look specifically for views that do not fit the main categories. The consultation owner must judge whether the draft fairly represents the material.

Who should join an agency rollout session?

Include a business owner, an information manager and someone who can assess technical access. The GCDO survey highlights capability and security barriers.2 Their involvement helps define a practical pilot with a review owner and a maintenance process.

Train your government team in Wellington

  1. You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
  2. We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
  3. People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
  • In person
  • Remote
  • Half-day workshop
  • Full-day workshop
  • Team rollout

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Sources

Written 6 October 2026. Employment figures come from Stats NZ Business Demography Statistics.