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The episode discusses the future of HR in the context of AI and the vision for HR 2030.

As AI expands its role all over our companies, a big question comes up: What will AI Agents do to HR and all our human capital practices? One could imagine the HR department “going away” or being replaced by agents, and managers interacting with this AI Agent Cloud for hiring, pay, promotion, hourly scheduling, and training. Is that where we’re really going? This week we’re starting to introduce our HR 2030 Vision, which brings together the world of Systemic HR (HR as an integrated operation, not only COEs) and our AI Superagent/Agent architecture. Vendors are slowly moving in this direction and we see HR leaders and operating groups also moving this way at various rates of speed. Many tech companies are moving in this direction quickly (Microsoft, Roblox, Google, others) while most other industries are still struggling to integrate systems and start their Agent journeys. This new vision, as bold as it seems, is very likely to come true in the next four years and it transforms HR into the business enablement function it always aspires to be. We see HR 2030 as a collective program of innovation, learning, and technology exploration. If you’d like to join us in this effort please…

People in this episode

Host: Josh Bersin

Topics covered

• HR2030
• Agentic HR
• Agentic AI
• Future of Work
• HR Transformation

Keywords

• AI Agents
• HR practices
• business enablement
• digital transformation
• HR jobs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Roblox, Google

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