HR managers can focus on strategies that can help the workforce, leadership training, mentoring, feedback, motivation, etc. Talent acquisition gets easier with AI, which can sift through hundreds of résumés in significantly less time than it would take a human. AI can also measure different candidates based on their skills and qualifications. And most important, AI can eliminate human bias, even unconscious bias. Induction of new employees can be done faster and better using AI. It seems counter intuitive, but AI can help new employees with key contacts, training suggestions, essential information regarding benefits, policies, and anything else that will ensure a seamless experience.

Jay Kiew is a management consultant and MBA 2018 from the Ivey Business School. One of the predominant workplace communication tools is Slack, whose userbase has grown to 70,000 paying organizations and eight million daily active users. Canada, we have a problem. Our companies are struggling to retain their employees. According to a 2017 study by LinkedIn, Canada has the fourth-highest employee-turnover rate globally at 16 per cent (compared with the global average turnover rate of 11 per cent).