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Jen (JR) Rettig didn’t start her career with a grand plan to climb the HR ladder. She began as a retail operator and department store buyer before a side passion for campus recruiting completely redirected her path. While working as a buyer trainee out of the University of Michigan, Rettig started volunteering to fly back […]
Mark Zuckerberg recently predicted a future where companies operate with drastically smaller teams—a shift that leaves HR leaders grappling with a critical question: when fewer people are expected to do more, what happens to the employee experience? New research from HiBob highlights this reality, showing that 75% of decision-makers expect moderate AI proficiency to become […]
Ninety-five percent of U.S. organizations now require AI fluency when hiring. Yet 59% of hiring managers report that, in the last year, they’ve hired someone who demonstrated AI fluency in the interview but ultimately failed to perform on the job. That doesn’t necessarily point to an AI hiring problem. It reflects a challenge hiring managers […]
It’s 10 a.m. and Maria asks an AI tool to draft a summary. The answer comes back fast but not quite right, so she pastes the same request into a second tool to see if it does better, then a third, because the second one was missing context the first one had. Thirty minutes disappear […]
Most companies still treat workplace AI as a technology rollout. Leaders select a platform, IT manages access, and HR gets asked to arrange training after the major decisions have already been made. That sequence misses the deeper challenge. Successful AI adoption depends on whether employees can judge when their own expertise exceeds the tool’s capabilities […]
A CFO uses an AI assistant to draft a board update before the Monday morning meeting ends. Down the hall, employees performing similar knowledge work remain stuck with old processes because access, training, managerial support, and incentives never arrived. That divide exposes the real AI adoption gap: companies can appear technologically advanced while most daily […]
Stacey Hoin didn’t take the traditional path to the top of the HR world. She actually started her career in a courtroom. As a corporate lawyer specializing in major business mergers and acquisitions, she learned early on how companies tick from a financial and structural level. But when she pivoted into labor and employment law, […]
The main narrative around AI has focused on what jobs will be replaced and when. But more data is showing that some of these companies might be running before they can walk. As powerful as this technology has become, AI alone is not enough. Gartner recently predicted that by 2027, half of the companies that […]
Human resources (HR) data is one of the most important pieces of information stored in the modern enterprise, serving as a strategic, organizational backbone. It comprises some of an institution’s most sensitive data, including employee records, payroll information, and performance history. When this data needs to be migrated, whether for system upgrades or merger requirements, companies must ensure that the information remains intact […]
In a recent webinar conversation with Dr. Chrissy Roth-Francis, Ed.D., Director of Talent Development at LinkedIn, and SPARK HR 2026 speaker, she shared what human-centered leadership actually looks like in practice right now, based on what she’s seeing inside one of the world’s most influential technology organizations. During the webinar, three themes emerged on what human-centered leadership looks […]