Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology
This week at Workday Rising we introduce our new partnership with Workday around HR 2030. Together we will be launching a series of whitepapers, tools, education programs, and advisory services to help companies of all sizes move to the new, growth-oriented agentic model of HR 2030. This work will help Workday customers and others ... Read more»
Today I’m excited to share a new additions to our HR 2030™ research: The HR Leader’s Guide to Multi-Agent AI Architecture.
Getting a multiagent HR architecture right is like conducting an orchestra. The instruments are powerful, the musicians are skilled—but without a score and a conductor, what you get isn’t music. It’s noise.
Our newest ... Read more»
Today we introduce the Jupiter release of Galileo®, the world’s AI intelligence for HR. For the firsts time companies can embed Galileo’s massive intelligence into any AI agent, unleashing its insights, data, and problem solving to every employee in your company.
This release represents two years of engineering, so I’ll walk through the new ... Read more»
Despite the talk about job losses from AI, we now know the opposite is true. The new Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections: 2025-2035. shows that we are likely to have labor shortages in the future, despite growth in AI productivity ahead.
The bottom line is this: the US labor market will only grow ... Read more»
I have spent almost 30 years studying organizations, work, jobs, and HR, and every year there’s a new theme. There was digital transformation, employee wellbeing, hybrid work, diversity and inclusion, women’s rights, and now AI. What’s the real direction here?
One might argue that employment and jobs are becoming “more human,” but that’s not true.... Read more»
I’ve been an HR analyst and consultant for 30 years and there’s always a story that HR is “useless” or “a waste of time” or “going away.” And this will always continue, because most managers really do believe they are already experts at this domain.
And at this month’s SHRM conference, according to Bloomberg, ... Read more»
Wages play a huge role in frontline work. The 70%+ of employees who work in these roles often jump from job to job, employer to employer, just to make a few more dollars per hour.
Here’s the dynamic: a typical restaurant, retail, service, or transportation job requires no deep pre-requisite skill (Type 1 and Type ... Read more»
Fuel, transportation, housing, and food costs go up, but wage growth is far behind. Is this episodic or is there something bigger going on?
A NYT article explains that in San Francisco a combined salary of $370,000 is not enough to find a nice apartment. And this issue is national. For 2026 YTD gas prices ... Read more»
Today Eightfold introduced its AI powered Candidate Agent, which fits together with its AI Interview agent. Not only is this an important announcement for Eightfold as it goes after the red-hot high volume hiring market, it’s emblematic of the whole new Multi-Agent AI solutions coming in the world of HR 2030. (I explain ... Read more»
The explosive AI market is changing everything, and even Handshake, the leader in university recruiting and early career growth, is taking the bait. Today Handshake acquired Uplimit, one of the pioneers in AI-native corporate learning, with a goal of building a massive AI skills academy and job network for young workers.
I talked ... Read more»
While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which went through a similar shift in the 1990s.
Podcast here: Is AI Becoming A Commodity? Or Is it Just A Normal Enterprise Technology like other?... Read more»
This week we welcome 450 senior HR leaders to our fifth annual Irresistible Conference at the beautiful USC campus in Los Angeles. I want to highlight the big announcements we’re making.
First, the launch of The Josh Bersin Institute and the Global HR Excellence Certification Program.
Yes, we’ve taken all our research, case studies, ... Read more»
One of the most interesting (and disruptive) aspects to enterprise AI is the simple fact that AI Agents and Superagents (read our HR 2030 architecture for more) are not “systems” or applications in the traditional sense. They are “your systems” that learn, grow, and “become your company.”
In other words, an AI Agent that does ... Read more»
Let me pose a controversial (but logical) premise: the price we pay for AI tools is going to start to skyrocket. And this price increase is going to have some very disruptive effects.
First, why will AI prices likely rise?
It’s pretty simple: this is extremely expensive technology to deliver. Already,spending on data centers, ... Read more»
This week Cornerstone, the largest provider of corporate learning technology (around $1 Billion in revenue, roughly four times the size of Docebo), launched its reinvention into the deep and complex world of AI. Let me detail what’s going on and give you my perspectives, as we prepare to launch HR 2030.
Cornerstone Today
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