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Nov. 9, 2026

Kentucky college grants religious accommodation excusing humanist from AI use

The news demonstrates an emerging compliance issue facing employers as they move to adopt the technology.

By Ryan Golden • Nov. 2, 2026

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Inside the rapidly changing world of AI in HR

As HR departments deploy AI across a variety of functions, both benefits and challenges have emerged.

By HR Dive staff

AI is changing the workforce faster than jobs can keep up

95% of HR leaders say staff use AI daily in roles where AI isn't in the job description.

Nov. 2, 2026

Companies are not saving money with AI, Gartner finds

Although many organizations have invested significantly in artificial intelligence, workforce productivity gains have not kept up, a recent study found.

By Lara Ewen • Oct. 29, 2026

CIOs unprepared for agentic workforce shift

Just 4% of tech leaders have plans in place to retool roles for an agentic-human workforce, a Gartner survey found.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 23, 2026

AI is splitting HR into 2 archetypes, study shows

Every role — from HR specialist to CHRO — now requires knowledge of data analytics, while traditional administrative skills are declining, Draup explained.

By Laurel Kalser • Oct. 22, 2026

CEOs say they’re not yet seeing transformational change from AI

But more than 6 in 10 U.S. leaders said they were confident their firms were moving at the right pace or ahead of the curve in terms of AI development, per a KPMG report.

By Lara Ewen • Oct. 22, 2026

The future of HR services: How AI is making human expertise more valuable

The future of HR services is evolving. CoAd explores where AI and human expertise fit in.

By Jim Neve (CEO, CoAd) • Oct. 19, 2026

Workday brings autopilots to hiring, payroll in autonomous AI bet

The company said its latest tools will anticipate needs and take actions across finance and HR workflows, with customer-defined controls.

By Alexei Alexis • Oct. 13, 2026

HR leaders feel positive about their outlook, but can’t back it up with numbers

A 2026 report from Betterworks shows a quantitative disconnect between HR’s optimism and demonstrated proof of concept for outcomes, suggesting HR should buckle down on data.

By Caroline Colvin • Oct. 13, 2026

Even woman-presenting AI bots are ‘paid’ less, research says

“We don’t want to inadvertently reproduce existing inequalities in a new technological setting,” a researcher said.

By Ginger Christ • Oct. 8, 2026

Few CHROs say they feel very confident they can manage AI-driven change

Survey respondents cited difficulty predicting AI’s workforce impacts as a primary barrier to preparing for the future.

By Ryan Golden • Oct. 7, 2026

Executives may use AI more than their workers do

At the same time, a significant subset of business leaders acknowledge they pretend to know more about the technology than they actually do.

By David McCann • Oct. 6, 2026

What high-performing businesses do differently with a human capital management partner

If using human capital management (HCM) technology is no longer a competitive advantage on its own, what is?

Oct. 5, 2026

California revamps AI protections for workers in flurry of bill signings

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the laws aim to create a “nation-leading framework” for protecting workers and consumers.

By Ryan Golden • Oct. 1, 2026

AI skill levels drive workforce divide, PwC finds

More than half of workers surveyed said they are falling behind their AI-savvy colleagues, PwC said, noting that AI proficiency bolsters a sense of job security.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Sept. 30, 2026

Should workers be paid for AI skills?

Companies could face a “retention time bomb” if existing workers see new hires get paid more for tech expertise, Payscale found.

By Ginger Christ • Sept. 24, 2026

Nearly half of workers say they don’t want AI in payroll

Artificial intelligence’s use in total rewards remains in the early stages, reports have shown.

By Ginger Christ • Sept. 23, 2026

Employees use AI, but many say they don’t know why

Since workload rates remain steady across users and nonusers of artificial intelligence, companies need to reexamine their overall ROI, a vice president at Culture Amp said.

By Lara Ewen • Sept. 23, 2026

Why better support — not more features — is the missing link in HR technology

The value of a service-led HR platform isn’t just what it can do — it’s how well it’s backed by expertise, implemented and used.

Sept. 21, 2026

AI completely absent from most organizations’ ethics codes, survey finds

Additionally, fewer employees say they cite their codes of conduct or use them as a resource, according to LRN, even as workplace misconduct reports increase.

By Ryan Golden • Sept. 16, 2026

AI engineers say they know AI’s ethical risks, but workplace culture silences them

Research on the topic was presented the same week an ex-Anthropic engineer warned that his peers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”

By Caroline Colvin • Sept. 15, 2026

HR must set boundaries as it embraces AI notetakers, experts caution

Practitioners are increasingly responsible for vetting such tools before they are deployed in a workplace or recruitment setting, SHRM CHRO Jim Link told HR Dive.

By Ryan Golden • Sept. 14, 2026

The future of talent sourcing is more than clicks

Three shifts are redefining how talent acquisition teams source and hire quality candidates.

By Danny Ashraf, CRO Leoforce • Sept. 14, 2026

Generative AI overuse may hurt leaders’ judgment, researchers warn

The technology lacks the context or moral judgment needed to make complex decisions, meaning relying on it too much can degrade managers’ skills.

By Ryan Golden • Sept. 9, 2026