Are productivity gains from AI a miracle or a mirage? It’s a dilemma many organizations are facing today, as they observe rising individual performance among their employees… with no measurable effect on their overall results. Let’s try to understand why.
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.
Talking about performance at work is never easy. Especially when an employer decides to reward it with salary increases or one-time bonuses. It delights the recipients while risking alienating those who are left out. We explored this sensitive topic with Sarah Jodoin-Houle, CRHA, an HR consultant specializing in total compensation and communication.
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.
