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Job descriptions lie: How to rethink role design for AI (opens the original)
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Summary: Job descriptions treat a role as one fixed set of tasks. But AI means some of those tasks now belong to machines, some to people and some to both. Sorting them this way can show where people are being measured and rewarded for the wrong things. And it can start with just one role. <div class="w
The hidden cost of getting discipline wrong (opens the original)
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Summary: There are many hidden costs to getting discipline wrong. These can have a long-term impact on both organisational culture and effectiveness. Lost staff, damaged teams and burnt-out HR professionals are among the repercussions. <p clas
Five steps: How HR can pass the ‘Octopus Test’ before agentic AI gets its tentacles into everything (opens the original)
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For the past couple of years, most workplace conversations about AI have focused on prompting: how to ask better questions, write a stronger first draft, summarise a document or save ten minutes on an email. Useful? Sometimes. Transformational? No. But connected, agentic tools such as Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work are changing the nature of the conversation. This is no longer simply about what somebody types into a chat box; it is about what the technology can access, connect, retrieve, analyse
AI and HR: A new workplace bureaucracy perspective (opens the original)
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Summary: Bureaucracy might sound old-fashioned, but actually offers a useful lens for understanding AI’s mixed effects on HR. Used badly, AI creates new bureaucracy but used well it removes friction while keeping human oversight. <p clas
Five steps: How HRBPs can become culture change accelerators (opens the original)
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Recently I had a conversation with another client where, in order to create the culture change they need across the organisation, their HR Business Partner, HRBP team need to be much more confident in challenging, pushing back and shifting mindsets rather than just saying ‘yes’ to their business colleagues’ demands. It’s a conversation that comes up a lot. Easier said than done Overcoming this predicament may sound straightforward on paper but is harder to achieve than
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