AI, Skills and Future of Work

AI Anxiety in the Workplace: Why the Fear of Becoming Obsolete Is Forcing a New Approach to Employee Experience

  Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant corporate roadmap item. It is a present reality that is fundamentally altering how people view their careers. The concept of AI anxiety in the workplace is now a measurable phenomenon, not just a feeling. For decades, HR leaders relied on engagement surveys to measure the health of…

AI attribution alone cuts discretionary effort by 13%, and your engagement survey won’t catch it

A Brookings study finds discretionary effort falls 13% when work is labelled AI-made, while task meaning barely shifts. Your survey won’t see it.

KPMG rebuilds early careers training for a generation AI never lets do the grunt work

KPMG put close to 1,000 interns through rebuilt early careers training this year, betting judgement can be taught once AI has done the reps.

The AI wage premium hit 62%, and pay growth in AI-exposed jobs is falling behind

Two numbers arrived within a week of each other, and they point in opposite directions. PwC's 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer puts the AI wage premium at 62%, which is what employers pay extra for roles that ask for AI skills by name. Then Apollo Global Management ran the numbers on 321 US occupations and…

The Four-Day Work Week: Who Has Stuck With It and Who Reverted

It’s incredible really that around 2.7 million people in the UK now work a four-day week, roughly one in nine of the workforce. And that’s just the UK too. This is a look under the bonnet of the companies around the world really making it work. The 4 day work week has moved from fringe…

Five Companies with the ROI to Prove that Employee Experience and employee retention Investment Pays Off

For years, HR leaders have faced a familiar hurdle. Boards ask for proof before funding employee experience programs. It’s often not until employee retention becomes a big crisis that such EX initiatives are taken seriously. It can also be notoriously difficult to measure and prove ROI. But the good news is that skepticism is fading…

Return to Office Is Finally Working. Just Not the Way You Think.

Every boardroom conversation eventually lands on return-to-office mandates. Leaders debate badge swipes, monitor compliance reports, and wonder why top performers push back against rigid desk quotas. Across industries, executives treat attendance policies as enforcement challenges. Building trust in workplace settings requires a completely different operational playbook. A select group of organisations approaches the problem from…

Real Wages Are Nearly Back to Growth. What the Latest Data Means for Business and Employees.

After two years of pay packets losing ground to rising prices, the gap on wages is starting to close. The latest official data from both sides of the Atlantic, covering the period to mid-2026, suggests that real wages are approaching a turning point. For HR leaders and business owners, this is welcome news and the…

The Internal Mobility Success Playbook: How Leading Companies Keep and Grow Their Best Talent

The Reality of Internal Mobility A newly hired external manager lands in the role one of your strongest internal people wanted. Within days, that new leader needs help with systems, stakeholders, and basic ways of working. The employee who lost out ends up doing the translation. That is the part many executive teams miss. External…

New Data On Jobs in AI: AI Skills Pay 62% More.

Jobs in AI are searched by hundreds every month. But the real insight isn’t necessarily newly created jobs in AI. It’s understanding how to take the job you already have, and augment it with AI. And if you know how to work with artificial intelligence, the market is paying for it. The latest PwC Global…

Career Maxxing: How to Tell Ambition From Fear

The employee taking every course, volunteering for every project and networking at every opportunity looks like your most committed person. Cristen Dalessandro, Principal Researcher at the O.C. Tanner Institute, explains why there might be anxiety under the surface. In a Nutshell What the term actually means Career maxxing has moved from social media into HR…

The Right Graduates for the AI Era: A New KPMG Study on Human AI Collaboration Has the Answer

Today’s graduates arrive with top degrees, impressive internships, and high scores in AI literacy. But six months into your graduate programme, half of them are significantly outperforming the rest. The difference isn’t who codes faster or who knows more prompt engineering tricks. A new study of 523 early-career professionals at KPMG shows that performance in…