If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Layoffs and job cuts have dominated much of the recent headlines about AI and its impact. The Challenger Job Cuts Report, a monthly tracker of U.S.-based corporate layoff announcements, reported that AI led cited reasons for job cuts for the third …
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Thanks to Draup for sponsoring this issue. Download Draup’s report How Leading Organizations Are Redesigning for the AI Era This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: HR Monitor 2026 | McKinsey | A new 44-page report with benchmark insights on workforce planning, employee development, and talent acquisition, among other topics. I expand on building proactive …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. BCG just released the findings from its fourth annual AI at Work report, based on responses from 11,749 workers across 14 markets. One headline: 74% of frontline white-collar workers now regularly use AI, up 23 percentage points in one year, with …
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If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. As we continue to gain guidance from research-based insights on AI’s impact, this synthesis from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, based on research presented by MIT IDE Research Director Neil Thompson and colleagues at the April 2026 IDE Annual …
Thanks to Draup for sponsoring this issue. Download Draup’s report, 6 Working Principles for Organizational Design in the AI Era This issue of Talent Edge Weekly covers: Performance management and assessing potential, skills-based profiles for 30 roles, linking HR results to business outcomes, how corporate functions will change, and AI. The State of Performance and Potential: …
If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Most would agree that unlocking AI’s potential to deliver organizational value requires more than deploying tools and training individuals on them. It requires building the organizational conditions that disproportionately drive AI’s impact. With this as the backdrop, Microsoft’s new 2026 Work …
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