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Artificial intelligence

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  • Date:
    26 August 2026
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    How AI is reshaping jobs: The emerging challenge and opportunity for HR

    AI's impact extends beyond efficiency gains. It also changes the mix of tasks, responsibilities and judgment that make up a role. Despite this, in many organisations job titles and job descriptions remain unchanged. Lilia Dangi examines how is AI changing roles in practice and how HR needs to respond.

  • Date:
    25 August 2026
    Type:
    News

    Pressure grows for regulation of smart glasses as legal risks are revealed

    Employers should review their workplace policies as discreet smart glasses create fresh legal risks around data protection, confidentiality, privacy and workplace harassment.

  • Date:
    24 August 2026
    Type:
    Survey analysis

    Grievances research 2026

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way that workplace grievances are being raised and managed, with HR teams seeing changes in both the volume and the complexity of issues. This research explores the current grievances landscape at UK organisations to help understand the impact of AI on the grievances being submitted.

  • Date:
    28 May 2026
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Dealing with employee grievances in an AI-enabled world

    Workplace grievances written with the assistance of generative AI are on the rise, increasing the pressure on HR departments and line managers. Katherine Pope offers guidance to help employers deal fairly and efficiently with lengthy, legal citation-rich documents that sometimes obscure rather than reveal the core issues.

  • Date:
    6 May 2026
    Type:
    News

    Fewer CEOs believe AI will reduce hiring

    The number of CEOs who believe AI will lead to reduced hiring has more than halved, according to a global survey, which also found leaders increasingly resilient to geopolitical tensions.

  • Date:
    14 April 2026
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: The AI challenge - adjust your performance expectations and measurements now!

    Research suggests that AI is making a nonsense of the traditional equivalence between output and productivity and creating a new category of worker: the person who is thriving themselves into exhaustion. Jeremy Hollander joins the podcast to discuss how HR can tackle these issues by upgrading productivity measurements to distinguish sustainable high performance from intensity that is destined to end in burnout.

  • Date:
    18 March 2026
    Type:
    News

    AI mistrust costing businesses £29bn

    Mistrust in AI could be costing businesses £29bn in lost productivity, according to technology company UnlikelyAI.

  • Type:
    FAQs

    Can an employer use AI to make shortlisting decisions?

    Updated to reflect that restrictions on automated decision-making are removed by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 from 5 February 2026, but that employers must still have safeguards in place. 

  • Date:
    15 January 2026
    Type:
    News

    Employees waste 1.5 weeks a year 'correcting' AI output

    AI is helping employees save time, but these gains are often lost while mistakes are rectified, content is rewritten, and output is double-checked.

  • Date:
    5 August 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    AI fundamentals: How UK SMEs can use AI to save costs and boost efficiency

    In today's competitive business landscape, UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face growing pressure to cut costs, enhance efficiency and stay ahead of the curve. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, enabling businesses to achieve these goals by automating repetitive tasks, improving decision-making and optimising operations.

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