If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. In this new Brookings Hamilton Project analysis report, economist Jed Kolko argues that the biggest questions about AI and the labor market remain unanswered for three reasons: 1) early findings on labor demand are inconclusive in part because there are now …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. HR practitioners continue to tap into data and insights to help their organizations understand and prepare for AI’s impact on jobs and work. With this in mind, I recently shared two useful resources: 1) The Brookings Institution analysis pairing AI exposure …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As AI continues to reshape how work gets done and by whom, this HBS Working Knowledge piece shares insights on where it is already shifting job demand, including which roles employers are posting for and the skills they now expect. Using …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As access to AI models and tools becomes widespread, the differentiator won’t be the model or platform, it will be an organization’s context: the real way work gets done through repeatable judgment calls, coordination patterns, escalation triggers, and trade-offs. That’s the …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. When evaluating AI’s impact on jobs, much of the analysis starts with “Which roles have the most tasks AI can do?” and then jumps to who will be displaced. That’s one part of the narrative, but it’s incomplete. That’s because exposure …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. This article argues that AI does not reduce work and often intensifies it. The authors share findings from an eight-month study at a U.S.-based tech company with about 200 employees (a small sample, so not broadly generalizable, but still a data …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. This new article, supported by a 35-page slide deck, positions the Chief HR Officer (CHRO) as a central driver of AI-enabled work redesign across the enterprise, beginning with the HR function. While these resources offer many insights, one point to reinforce …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Much of the conversation about AI in the workplace has focused on investment and upside potential. Yet organizations must also address the second-order risks of AI adoption, meaning the unintended consequences that emerge in execution, culture, and the employee experience as …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As organizations accelerate their use of AI, many are ending up with too many disconnected pilots and too little strategic coordination. In response, this article argues that AI investments should be managed as a portfolio rather than a collection of experiments. …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. This recently released 74-page report by Microsoft’s New Future of Work Initiative provides research-backed insights from multiple sources on how AI is shaping, and has the potential to shape, work. It examines six core areas: 1) Adoption and Usage, including adoption …
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