This is the paradox of productivity gains with AI. According to a study conducted by two researchers and published in the columns of the Harvard Business Review, the adoption of generative AI leads less to a reduction in employee workload than to an intensification of work, which can lead to degraded quality and professional burnout. Let’s deep dive.
For Sophie Morfaux and Manon Simard, there is no doubt: the issue of sustainable development is directly linked to the HR function. The two organizational development specialists want to convince HR professionals to take an active part in the sustainable transformation taking place in companies.
Over the past year, conferences, summits, and reflection days on AI have multiplied at a feverish pace… HR professionals, for their part, gathered on February 12 for the 2nd edition of the Tech HR Innovation Summit at the Palais des congrès in Montreal. A recap of an event that showed technology in HR could ignite passions, but also exhaustion.
Out with rigid job descriptions, in with a skills registry regularly updated for its approximately 175,000 employees. This is what the organizational transformation PwC undertook a year and a half ago. An evolution that hasn’t come without pain, we learned at the Tech HR Innovation Summit last February.
The Nexa RH firm unveiled, as an introduction to the Tech HR Innovation Summit it organized on February 12 at the Palais des congrès in Montreal, Canada’s first AI in HR Barometer. An opportunity to reveal the gap that exists between perceived AI opportunity… and its still secondary place in strategies. Analysis of 6 key findings.
In a context where 77% of workers admit to checking their social media at work, we can no longer simply ignore this element in team mood and engagement. However, this does not necessarily mean the practice is bad… Researchers from Rutgers University wanted to better understand the relationship workers have with major social media platforms.
With its price war, economic slowdown, and technological upheaval, 2025 saw the emergence of fault lines that should become much more apparent in 2026. Here’s how this reality will shape the world of work in the year ahead.
The year 2025 began against the backdrop of a trade war with the United States and continued with a marked economic slowdown. Employees quickly understood that they no longer held the upper hand against bewildered employers. Hello to concerns about productivity, “job hugging,” and a recalibration of employer expectations.
