Being nice to employees may have an undesired effect on morale and productivity. Instead, managers should look at kindness as a better path.

Take stock, and then consider a new, better approach to your HR tech ecosystem: a cluster model. It might require compromise but the potential advantages are significant, writes expert Stacey Harris of Sapient Insights.

By integrating AI into leadership development, HR can reduce the biases and inefficiencies that are common in manual feedback analysis, these experts write.

You've seen the headlines, but what is DeepSeek, and—more importantly—is this something HR leaders need to care about?