The U.S. labor market is slowing, but attention to AI talent is surging, even as other areas contract, creating both challenges and opportunities for HR leaders.
Careful plan design, managing high-cost categories and leveraging alternative approaches can help employers contain costs while avoiding wholesale disruptions and maintaining overall employee engagement.
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.
"When you embed workforce planning into existing business routines, you don't need a new process," said Vincent Favre, organizational design leader at Danone.
Lynn See of airline Cathay Pacific says the organization champions flexible, purpose-driven employee experiences, helping the workforce thrive both at work and in life.
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,
