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AI has taken the workplace by storm, and for HR teams—and the companies they’re part of—deploying AI is increasingly important. Seventy-seven percent of respondents to HR Brew’s survey said that AI adoption is at least a “moderate” priority for their department, and that number grew when asked about the workplace at large: 84% said their companies were prioritizing it.

“Every employee is encouraged to use AI tools,” one respondent said. “They are some of the most powerful tools we have access to, and everyone should be finding ways to increase their own efficiency with them.”

And because AI is overwhelmingly a standout company objective, according to the data, HR teams aren’t the only ones at the forefront of its adoption in workplaces. A majority of respondents reported that HR, IT, and executive leadership teams are “involved” in deployment: 78% said HR teams, 77% for IT, and 71% for executive leadership.

HR’s involvement isn’t necessarily translating into significant AI use, though. Only 45% of respondents reported that their HR department’s participation in their workplace’s AI transformation is “high” or “very high,” and only half of respondents said HR is “only somewhat modeling the AI behavior” it wants from the entire workforce.

For more on the state of AI readiness in HR, keep reading here.—TC

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Accenture and the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to a $25 million settlement over alleged discriminatory employment practices this week.

The DOJ claimed that Accenture has violated the False Claims Act since 2017 by “taking race or sex into account when making hiring decisions” and when considering promotions, using aspirational workforce representation goals, according to the settlement. The DOJ also asserted that Accenture violated anti-discrimination rules by taking race and sex into account in decisions regarding employee leadership development and educational programs.

The company denies engaging in discrimination, with the settlement stating that it is “neither an admission of liability by Accenture, nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well-founded.”

The settlement is the largest DEI-related False Claims Act suit to date, and follows similar deals made with IBM and Deloitte earlier this year, HR Brew reported previously.

For more on the settlement and its implications, keep reading here.—KP

      

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RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

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The résumé has been a standard part of the hiring process for about 75 years now. But thanks to AI, it’s not as trusted or clear an indicator of job candidate quality as it once was.

“Some of our research shows that there’s more noise than signal right now in the résumé,” Paul Todgham, CFO of hiring and application tracking platform Greenhouse, told CFO Brew.

Candidates are using AI to tailor their résumés to specific roles, but in some cases, they’re applying to jobs they’re not really qualified for. Companies, in turn, are using AI to sift through the large numbers of résumés they’re getting. And job seekers are finding ways to get around automated and AI-enabled systems, using methods like prompt injection. This phenomenon of more AI use begetting more AI use has been dubbed the “AI doom loop.”

For more on how to break through hiring’s “AI doom loop,” keep reading on CFO Brew.—CV

      

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: The majority (71%) of those surveyed in the US believe AI will result in fewer jobs, while only 5% believe it will create more. (Pew Research Center)

Quote: “Human judgment is going to supersede human expertise.”—Adam Grant, a bestselling author and organizational psychologist, on how AI is changing the skills needed to perform white-collar roles (the Wall Street Journal)

Read: Young professionals are ditching cushy jobs at major consultancies for even cushier jobs at AI startups. (the New York Times)

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