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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
An expensive lesson on how not to deal with protected disclosures (opens the original)
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Summary: Nuffield Health was ordered to pay £150,000 after a tribunal found a pattern of poor treatment following an employee’s whistleblowing complaint. This acts as a reminder that these cases rarely come down to one bad decision, but a string of smaller ones nobody stepped in to fix. <div class
Why experts need to embrace the beginners mindset (opens the original)
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When people are asked to reskill, they are not just learning new tools. They are relearning how to feel competent. As AI accelerates the pace of workplace change, experienced professionals face a particular challenge: the skills that earned them credibility over years or decades offer little advantage in mastering unfamiliar technology. Research suggests many older workers actually want AI training, but the deeper struggle is rarely about willingness. People who have spent years as the expert of
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