AI is coming -- and HR is not prepared - Workforce

The future of work will be driven by artificial intelligence, and HR is woefully ill equipped to make it happen -- at least according to many reports about AI and HR. IBM, PWC and Deloitte (among others) have all done surveys on AI's impact on HR in the last 18 months, and the message is clear: companies want AI, but they don't have the talent, leadership or confidence in their human resources team to make it happen. IBM predicts that 120 million workers in the world's 10 largest economies will need to be reskilled in the next few years to adapt to an AI-driven marketplace -- and that if companies don't get started soon they will quickly risk losing their competitive edge. Yet its "Unplug from the past" report found that just 28 percent of CHROs expect their enterprise to address changing workforce demographics with new strategies. Even if companies are gearing up for an AI reskilling evolution, roughly half of their employees don't think they can pull it off.