HR projects are leading company moves to digital tech, say business leaders
Summary
We take a look at the possibility of a jobless future thanks to AI replacing mid-skilled jobs as well as three case studies of high-profile organisations turning to our robotic friends for human resources help.Business leaders said this week that, in many cases, HR was often ahead of other parts of their operations – including IT departments – in taking advantage of digital technology and agile ways of working.Astrid Fontaine , member of the board at Bentley Motors , said it was important for the company to give its employees the best possible experience at using technology at work.Wehmeyer has seen a rapid take-up, for example, of collaboration platform SAP Jam, which the HR team decided to make available to any part of the organisation that wanted to use it.It is using its HR platform to make online training programmes in compliance available to its business partners, a total of 200,000 people on top of the 100,000 that work directly for Vodafone.