As artificial intelligence deployment becomes a strategic priority for companies, the explicit mention of “AI” is beginning to appear in executive job titles — raising the question of which department should ultimately own responsibility for such a disruptive technology.
Employers continue to rack their brains trying to coax employees back to the office, while workers have grown comfortable at home and are reluctant to leave. Here are three examples of companies that have chosen to think outside the box to tackle the problem.
In this era of back-to-basics and employee performance measurement, Iceland continues to go its own way, maintaining its four-day workweek policy for all. Let’s look at what such a policy has produced, five years after its implementation.
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.
