Some old but gold books on EX that every HR leader should read at least once, offering time-tested formulas and real-life examples for shaping and redesigning employee experience in the workplace.
For the past three decades, we’ve been fighting with machines, complaining about dashboards, reports and avoiding training. But now, it’s time to stop fighting and start teaming.
Given the speed of industrial shifts, there’s a risk of sidelining some time-tested practices, simple approaches that continue to deliver authentic and meaningful employee experiences.
Many global leaders cautioned that AI could lead to widespread job displacement, particularly among white-collar roles, and Microsoft’s report takes this further by assigning higher AI applicability scores to 40 white-collar jobs.
HR’s responsibility is clear: prepare the organisation for AI, lead workforce transformation, rethink org design, and champion reskilling, not just for the business, but for themselves too.
The latest appointments reflect a steady rise of women into C-suite roles, signaling that systemic barriers like gender bias, limited talent pipelines, and inflexible policies are being actively dismantled.
At this point in time, it would be more accurate to say that the competition is people who can use AI better than you. And that means people who manage AI rather than letting themselves be managed by it; people who add value that AI alone cannot.
While redesigning & fixing strategy or automating hiring is important, it’s also about reprogramming behaviours, realigning values, and owning collective responsibility.