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.
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 put close to 1,000 interns through rebuilt early careers training this year, betting judgement can be taught once AI has done the reps.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Employee financial well-being in 2026 presents a striking paradox. On one hand, more workers feel secure than they have in nearly half a decade. On the other, the vast majority remain pinned down by the relentless pressure of everyday expenses. The latest Bank of America Workplace Benefits Report reveals that while individual balance sheets are…
End of content
End of content