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This “productivity paradox” is one reason artificial intelligence ROI remains somewhat elusive, Randstad Digital said in its report.
When companies build AI models without regard for whether their workforce can use them, it creates a capability crisis that Randstad Digital called “acceleration without direction.” This disconnect between what corporations want and what they’re preparing workers for indicates that the factor most likely to impede corporate AI transformation is neither money nor technology, but rather the workers.
“Enterprise AI isn’t failing at the model level; it’s failing at the implementation layer,” Michael Morris, global head of platform and talent at Randstad Digital, said in a statement. “If you increase the velocity of your tools without increasing the capacity of your engineers to govern and optimize them, you get technical debt at scale.”
Specifically in North America, 24% of workers have quit their jobs because there were no development opportunities. Worldwide, engineers, architects and delivery leads are most focused on finding employers that incorporate learning as part of an ongoing commitment to employees, per Randstad Digital.
“The question for leaders is no longer ‘How much are we spending on AI?’ but ‘How fast are our engineering teams learning to work with it?,” Morris said. “Upskilling can no longer be treated as an HR program or professional development perk. It’s business-critical infrastructure, part of your technology stack, not separate from it.”
Against this backdrop, there’s been a significant increase in practice-based AI learning and skills validation. According to a report from AI skills management platform Skillsoft, workers are extremely eager to demonstrate their AI proficiency as companies speed up their AI adoption.
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Smiths Detection, Inc. refused to pay for a hearing protection device for an employee with hearing loss and instead demoted her to a job with lower pay, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed.
An Epstein Becker & Green attorney noted that navigating the logistics of multiple state leave plans can get tricky.
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Smiths Detection, Inc. refused to pay for a hearing protection device for an employee with hearing loss and instead demoted her to a job with lower pay, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claimed.
An Epstein Becker & Green attorney noted that navigating the logistics of multiple state leave plans can get tricky.
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