Emerging HR Tech

HR and IT integration: What ServiceNow and Moderna learned

Through their different journeys, people leaders at Moderna and ServiceNow highlight where HR must focus to successfully integrate with IT and lead AI-driven transformation. “Someone needs to grab the AI agenda, and I think it should be HR,” says Moderna's Tracey Franklin

From innovation to exhaustion: Inside the rise of transformation fatigue

New research suggests employees are overwhelmed by change—and AI is a prime driver. This expert offers HR leaders strategies to help the workforce thrive through transformation.

3 ‘wicked messes’ facing CEOs—and how HR can clean them up

HR must help CEOs by guiding workforce strategy, clarifying talent costs, building AI literacy across leadership and evolving culture alongside technology. “You need to become much more of an enterprise leader, a true strategic navigator,” said Peter Aykens, chief of research at Gartner.

10 ways CHROs can strengthen people strategy in a changing workplace

Leading transformation isn’t just about technology, according to this expert. It’s about preparing employees, strengthening skills and guiding the workforce through uncertainty.

Exclusive: Introducing the CHRO Association, the new HR Policy Association

The HR Policy Association announced this week it has rebranded to the CHRO Association. Three leaders spoke exclusively with 'HR Executive' about the transformation.

How HR can use new tech to spot overlooked talent already on the payroll

Internal talent mobility has historically referred to moving talent to different jobs within the organization to create learning opportunities. With the help of AI, we can now think of internal talent mobility more flexibly.

From fear to flourishing: How HR can help teams adopt AI

Though more than three in four companies use AI in some capacity, only 27% have achieved AI adoption across their entire organization. The human element remains the barrier.

How AI transformation can drive a ‘quantum leap’ for the global workforce

Navigating the new landscape requires more than just adopting new technology; it calls for the development of a new type of professional and a radical rethinking of the HR function itself,

How AI use can help frontline workers beat burnout, according to new UKG research

Despite burnout-busting evidence, anxiety about AI runs high among frontline employees, according to a new report from UKG. Work needs to be done, one leader says, to "explain the 'why' behind AI."

3 critical lessons from HR Tech 2025 that predict coming trends

HR Tech 2025 showed that the new wave of HR tech promises much, but requires intelligent and patient application, writes conference Chair Steve Boese.

What Dayforce execs say it takes to create an ‘AI culture’​

"As leaders, we want to make people feel like they can grow, learn and develop within the company," said Amy Cappellanti-Wolf, the company's chief people officer.

6 things HR leaders must know about agentic AI before investing

HR employees must shift from delivering workflows to "understanding the experience and product they want end users to have and how they can use the technology to deliver this with AI solutions," according to Gartner's Eser Rizaoglu.

Skills and culture: Which is more important for building a future-ready workforce?

Ferring Pharma's Purvi Tailor explores how the organization is balancing an investment in technical skills and culture as it strives to create a workforce and organization that will thrive in the future.

Is prompt engineering dead? One expert describes what HR should focus on instead

West Monroe's David Borowski suggests organizations must "not abdicate critical thinking." He says success comes from transforming to use AI strategically, not from technical skills alone.

Reskilling vs. replacement: Making the case for investing in people

Leaders stand on stages proclaiming that employees are their greatest asset in the AI era. Yet a lack of investment in reskilling often tells another story.

UKG unveils a major rebrand: a workforce operating platform with frontline focus

Under the leadership of CEO Jen Morgan, who joined in August 2024, UKG’s executive team announced a rebrand that reimagines the company's position in the market while maintaining its core strengths.