Labor Day Arrives: How AI Changes Everything For Workers
US Labor Day is always a time to celebrate workers. Well this year, unlike years before, the entire labor market is changed. Not only are many front-line workers in high demand, white-collar workers are experiencing a hiring slowdown and automation is impacting everyone. And for the first time in my career, the BLS expects very little job growth in the coming decade.
As I discuss in this week’s podcast, it’s time to take a step back and understand that everything we thought we knew about the labor market has changed, and this change is going to accelerate.
Listen in and you’ll see the big picture: how shortages will continue, how productivity will grow, and how new ideas like talent density and the Superworker and Supermanager will redefine our companies. And I also describe your new keys to career success.
I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend, we’re in for exciting times ahead.
Additional Reading
US Job Market To Growth Rate To Drop By 75% In Next Decade (BLS)
UK Birth Rate Falls to Record Low
The Rise of The Superworker: AI Makes Employees are More Important Than Ever
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Will AI Obsolete Employee Surveys? Perceptyx Says AI Can Do Much More.
In this podcast Kathi Enderes interviews Joe Freed, Chief Product officer at Perceptyx, explains the company’s strategy to extend its employee engagement platform to provide nudges, manager tools, and in-depth analysis of employee needs.
While the employee survey is not dead yet, you’ll see where things are going. Perceptyx is a well-known survey and analytics company, known for its highly customizable employee engagement tools. Joe explains how Perceptyx’s acquisition of Humu, Waggl, and Cultivate brought advanced AI and nudge technology to the company, and explains a vision of high-powered employee engagement tools for the future.
Additional Information
Employee Engagement and Happiness Crisis. What Should We Do?
Perceptyx Acquires Cultivate
Workday Throws Down The Gauntlet On Employee Engagement: Acquisition of Peakon
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Is Superintelligence Nonsense? Why The AI Market Stumbled.
The AI market boom took a pause last week when GPT-5 and some new research from MIT appeared. As you’ll hear, the expectations for AI are extraordinarily high and that causes a lot of bubble effects. Today I explain this bubble and where it’s going.
I also discuss our latest experiences with AI transformation in business, and why “task automation” is not really the big opportunity ahead. You’ll see that the Superworker effect changes organization design, jobs, and reward systems. Lots of opportunities for productivity ahead.
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Additional Information
The MIT Report And Why It’s Misleading: AI Definitely Pays Off
From 2017: Why Superintelligence Is A Myth
Workday to Acquire Paradox. A Bigger Deal Than You Think.
Get Galileo, The World’s AI Assistant for HR
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Workday Acquires Paradox, A Bigger Deal Than You Think
This week I discuss Workday’s acquisition of Paradox, the pioneer in AI-powered conversational recruiting.
As I describe in detail, this is a big deal – and it goes beyond Workday’s ability to now offer high-volume, conversational recruitment. Talent Acquisition itself is about to radically change with AI, and this moves Workday into a leading position in what we call “The Revolution in Talent Acquisition.” (Report coming out in October.)
I also discuss the latest trends in AI transformation in general, and what we’ve now learned about HR job redesign and how AI really is changing the fundamentals of HR operating models (automating Systemic HR) and job design.
For access to all our research, analysis, professional development, and tools, get Galileo, the world’s AI assistant for HR.
Additional Information
Will Chatbots Take Over HR Tech? Paradox Sets The Pace.
The Systemic HR Operating Model: How AI Transforms The Function
Learn about AI in HR: Join The Josh Bersin Academy (Galileo Learn)
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White Hot AI Dev Tool Market: Workday Acquires Flowise And More
The new battle for AI supremacy is now moving to the application development space, or IDE (Integrated Development Environments). These companies, like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot, Replit, Google AI Studio, and Microsoft Power tools, are exploding with growth. Why? Because in the world of AI, we’re all application developers!
(Listen to “We’re All Software Engineers Now” for more.)
Well, as I explain in this market, the big players like Workday now want to be your development environment. In this podcast I explain this space and some history of IDE’s in the client/server era. (It more or less predicts where this is going.)
Listen in and you’ll understand why billions of VC dollars are suddenly going into dev tools for AI, why you’ll be using one of these soon, and how Workday and others will respond. I also briefly explain how Galileo plays in this space.
We’re coming up on HR Tech season so come see us at HR Technology Conference in Vegas (September), Unleash (October), and SAP Connect.
More to Read
Workday Flowise Acquisition
Windsurf vs Copilot vs Cursor (a little geeky)
Galileo Venus Release (Video: Galileo for Managers, Task Library Tools, Learning Integration)
What Is Vibe Coding Anyway?
1994: Sybase Acquires Powersoft (how history repeats itself!) (NYT Download)
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