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Workday's acquisition of Paradox could expand the company's market share and growth in new industries, mid-market, and agentic AI in general.| JOSH BERSIN
Employee recognition of "thank you" can drive up to 30% reduction in turnover, and double digit increase in innovation. Here's why.| JOSH BERSIN
People Analytics, Evolved: A Systemic Approach Business has become more complex than ever. As a result, the talent challenges organizations and leaders face have evolved, too. HR used to serve a primarily administrative function...| JOSH BERSIN
The statistics on employee engagement and happiness are shocking. Gallup’s 2025 data shows that only 21% of workers are fully engaged (down 10% from last year), only 27% of managers are engaged (down 11%), 66% of employees are “suffering,” and 8% are “struggling.” And there’s more distressing news. The 2025 World Happiness Report shows that ... Read more» The post Employee Engagement and Happiness Crisis. What Should We Do? appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Introducing Galileo for Managers, the AI-Powered Leadership Guru at the fingertips of every manager. Built on 30 years of management research.| JOSH BERSIN
The Global HR Capability Project defines, assesses, and benchmarks HR capabilities and helps you benchmark and grow skills and expertise.| JOSH BERSIN
The Big Reset: Responding to the Pandemic. This in-depth research will give you insights and best-practices from hundreds of companies.| JOSH BERSIN
New research discovers that the most important strategy in corporate learning is not skills: its driving individual & organizational growth.| JOSH BERSIN
We’ve now spent years debating the use of AI for human decision-making: who to hire, who to promote, how much to pay someone, and hundreds of other things. Leaders are faced with complex, difficult decisions every day: can we trust AI to make them for us? I’d suggest the answer is no, and that’s the ... Read more» The post Can AI Beat Human Intuition For Complex Decision-Making? I Think Not. appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
The gloves are off in the global competition for AI supremacy, leading US to invest in infrastructure, education, & deregulation for growth.| JOSH BERSIN
Have you ever wondered where all your personal and professional data goes? Here’s a peek into the multi-billion dollar “people data” market. One of the most dynamic and important parts of our economy is the marketplace for people data. Every recruiter, location planner, HR executive, economist, university head, and government planner wants to know where ... Read more» The post People Data For Sale: How The Talent Intelligence Market Really Works appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
If you think software programming is a techie niche for hoodie-clad coders pounding on keyboards, think again. Welcome to a new era, one where every business leader, HR professional, and even frontline manager is, in effect, a software engineer. That may sound strange, but stay with me. Because this shift is about empowerment, AI, and ... Read more» The post Prompting is Programming: We’re All Software Engineers Now! appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Despite talk of Superintelligence, AI is not about to destroy our jobs or our lives. Here are four big reasons not to worry.| JOSH BERSIN
Artificial Intelligence has recently taken the world by storm. In this comprehensive whitepaper, Understanding AI in HR: A Deep Dive, Global Analyst & CEO Josh Bersin reviews the impact of AI technologies in the world of HR, L&D, and all aspects of management.| JOSH BERSIN
AI Pacesetters: Six Secrets Of The Superworker Company Pacesetters in the Era of The Superworker excel in leveraging AI and talent intelligence to create dynamic, adaptable workforces of superworkers. Though they consistently outperform peers and...| JOSH BERSIN
Imagine if you knew every task of every worker in your company. With such a database you could quickly make decisions about what to automate, where to centralize work, and what business platforms to buy. This is the goal of Reejig’s new Work Architecture Platform, launching today. Let me explain. Just as talent intelligence ... Read more» The post Reejig Launches Work Architecture Platform To Speed Transition to AI appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Six secrets to Pacesetters: the top companies pulling into the lead in AI and business transformation. It's all about people not technology.| JOSH BERSIN
Google Jobs Search - Potentially very disruptive to the recruiting market.| JOSH BERSIN
Productivity Paranoia is afoot: CEOs don't think people are productive, yet employees are overwhelmed. What should companies do?| JOSH BERSIN
This week we launched a bold new course “Reinventing L&D: Join The Revolution,” a comprehensive program filled with information and case studies on the reinvention of corporate learning. Not only is this course essential to training and HR professionals, it’s also a mandate for people with roles in sales enablement, manufacturing training, and ... Read more» The post New Galileo Certificate Program – Reinventing L&D: Join The Revolution! appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
By Kathi Enderes, SVP Research and Global Industry Analyst with comments by Josh Bersin The Workday Innovation Summit 2025 was more than an analyst meeting: it was a signal that Workday is attempting a full-scale reinvention. Under CEO Carl Eschenbach and Board Chair Aneel Bhusri, Workday is shifting from a product-centric model to an ... Read more» The post The Workday Economy – A Bold New Strategy Emerges appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
As many of you know, we believe we’re beginning a massive AI revolution in corporate learning. This revolution will dramatically change what L&D does, how L&D operates, and how the content and coaching market evolves. In this article I’ll update you on the major vendors and give you a roadmap for evolution. Paradigm Shift: ... Read more» The post The L&D Revolution: Docebo Goes AI-Native, Sana Expands, What Do You Do? appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Despite articles about AI, entry level hiring is critical to company growth, corporate culture, and long term organizational performance.| JOSH BERSIN
Cornerstone acquires SumTotal Systems from Skillsoft for $200M. This marks the end of the traditional learning management systems market.| JOSH BERSIN
Workday Learning is moving fast, and now integrates journeys, skills cloud, talent marketplace, and career. Competition watch out!| JOSH BERSIN
Workday Goes Everywhere: Extends the platform into the flow of work, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workplace, and More.| JOSH BERSIN
Oracle enters the Skills Cloud market with Oracle Dynamic Skills. Unlike other platforms, skills is integrated into the entire platform.| JOSH BERSIN
Oracle announces Journeys, its major entry into the Employee Experience Platform market and direct competitor with ServiceNow.| JOSH BERSIN
Microsoft Visa, a groundbreaking new Employee Experience Platform, has the potential to disrupt the market for HR Technology.| JOSH BERSIN
Workday announces plans to acquire Peakon, throwing down the gauntlet on EX and Employee Engagement. This will change the market.| JOSH BERSIN
The Employee Experience Platform market has arrived. Companies can now build easy to use employee applications without changing or modifying their core HR platforms.| JOSH BERSIN
Today we are excited to launch Galileo Learn™, a revolutionary new platform for corporate learning and professional development. Originally designed as a major upgrade to The Josh Bersin Academy, Galileo Learn™ is a paradigm-shattering system which leverages AI, the Galileo Agent, and more than 700 new courses and professional development experiences derived from ... Read more» The post Galileo Learn™ – A Revolutionary Approach To Corporate Learning appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
AI is going to transform (and downsize) HR in a powerful and transformational way. It's not about cost reduction, think about value creation.| JOSH BERSIN
The $200B corporate learning market is radically changing to a new paradigm. How can organizations deliver learning in the flow of work?| JOSH BERSIN
Josh Bersin is a global industry analyst covering all areas of Human Resources, Leadership, HR Technology, and the changing world of work.| JOSH BERSIN
Today we are making two momentous announcements about Galileo®, both focused on making Galileo available “in your flow of work.” First, we are announcing the deep integration of Galileo into the ServiceNow AI platform, known asNow Assist. This means any user of Now Assist can ask questions about HR, leadership, ... Read more» The post Galileo Now Embedded Into ServiceNow and HiBob appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
As AI agents arrive, it's time to seriously re-engineer HR. And this time it's not a transformation, it's a reinvention.| JOSH BERSIN
Today Microsoft announced a wide range of Copilot features, many focused on Agents (research agent and analyst agent, agent development and management tools, and personal productivity features). But one feature set that is significant to HR is Microsoft’s new skills infrastructure: a skills-inference agent (and a skills management agent) that lets companies identify ... Read more» The post Microsoft Launches People Skills In Copilot, Altering The HR Tech Market appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
As many of you learn about AI and how to redesign your work, the “Superworker” story is now becoming real. In addition to dozens of AI case studies available in Galileo®, we just published the following explainer video to help you understand the four-stages of AI automation. Share with your teams and ... Read more» The post The Rise of The Superworker: Four Stages of AI Explainer Video appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Degreed is one of the most interesting business stories in the HR tech space. Founded in 2012, the company pioneered the idea of a Learning Experience Platform (LXP) to let anyone find and consume any form of learning. The original vision, which was well ahead of its time, was to democratize content beyond the clunky ... Read more» The post Degreed Plots A Comeback With Major AI Announcements appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Galileo™, the world's essential AI agent for HR, just got even better: the Mercury release adds reasoning, talent intelligence, and more.| JOSH BERSIN
The white collar recession is real, but that doesn't mean you have to sit still. Here's what you can do about it.| JOSH BERSIN
Let me posit an important question: if your CEO or CFO asks you to use AI to improve productivity, what would you do? Would you use the “chainsaw” model of efficiency and lay off 10% of the employees? Or would you thoughtfully redesign jobs around AI? This week I talked with dozens of companies ... Read more» The post Job Redesign Around AI: Work Intelligence Tools Arrive appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Welcome to our new research on Corporate Learning in the Age of AI. Learn how this $360 billion market is being reinvented.| JOSH BERSIN
How do you make sure your Human Capital Management systems add value? It's all about employees. New research unlocks the secrets.| JOSH BERSIN
Workday's architecture is now open, enabling the company to acquire other vendors, build new applications, and grow.| JOSH BERSIN
The HR Technology Market has flipped. Employee Experience and Talent Intelligence systems are now the core.| JOSH BERSIN
How do we redesign our companies for productivity? It's not all about job cuts, but much more. Here are ten principles to help.| JOSH BERSIN
Today we introduce a groundbreaking research on the role of the Chief Human Resources Officer. Coupled with this research we’re launching a new service, CHRO Insights™, to support CHROs and aspiring CHROs around the world. The Rapid Acceleration of The CHRO Role The CHRO has become one of the most critical jobs in business. ... Read more» The post New Research: Secrets Of The High Performing CHRO appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
As AI Agents proliferate through our companies, Workday wants to make your life easier: the Workday Agent System of Record. This new toolset lets companies register, manage, provision, control, and train AI agents throughout the enterprise. It’s like a workforce management system for our “digital employees.” Consider how the landscape is changing. Companies are ... Read more» The post Workday Makes A Play To Manage Your AI Agents appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Chipotle credits the AI Recruiting Agent from Paradox (named Ava Cado) as a core contributor to their Q4 and long term revenue growth.| JOSH BERSIN
Yes, Bersin Research is back. Our team is now doing some of the most groundbreaking research in my career. And it’s all available to you. Let me explain. I don’t need to tell you...| JOSH BERSIN
Why Power Skills (often called soft-skills) are the key to business performance and individual success in the future.| JOSH BERSIN
How do you build an Irresistible company? Here's how Starbucks, Walmart, Microsoft, Lego Group, L'Oreal, Chevron, and Cedars Sinai thrive.| JOSH BERSIN
What is the single biggest secret in business today? It's unleashing the human potential in every employee.| JOSH BERSIN
How do we grow our organizations in this competitive labor market? The secret is not recruiting: it's redesigning how our companies work.| JOSH BERSIN
Organization Design: The Real Secret To Growth Historically, companies have given little thought to the internal design of their businesses. In fact, nearly 60% of companies have very simplistic approaches to organization design, with...| JOSH BERSIN
Recruiting is harder than ever. Why are 74% of companies failing to optimize their talent acquisition process?| JOSH BERSIN
Irresistible 2022: The Global Conference for HR Leaders And Their Teams. Join Microsoft, Walmart, Lego Group, IBM, and more!| JOSH BERSIN
Despite the politics, DEI efforts are alive and well, now framed as business and leadership programs, not social justice initiatives.| JOSH BERSIN
A new generation of Mastery-based learning platforms has arrived. Here they are, ready to disrupt the HR Tech market.| JOSH BERSIN
Capability Academies, the next step in corporate training. Designed for the Future of Work.| JOSH BERSIN
AI doesn't eliminate jobs, it creates the opportunity for Superworkers. And Superworkers will change the economy, workforce, and companies.| JOSH BERSIN
2024 has been a rough and tumble year. We watched two major wars (Ukraine and Gaza), the breakdown of the Syrian regime, and a record-breaking year of floods and hurricanes. Crypto emerged as a viable, highly valued asset class and the world wrestled with inflation. And right-wing politicians won major elections, including in the United ... Read more» The post A Tumultuous Year Behind: A Challenging, Important 2025 appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Galileo is now proven with thousands of users and more than 100 in-depth HR applications. The AI Assistant for Everything HR!| JOSH BERSIN
How will AI drive radical improvements in productivity? I suggest there are four stages or levels of adoption, we're moving to level 4 fast.| JOSH BERSIN
AI is turning out to be pretty spectacular. Starting with ChatGPT and now moving to agents, reasoning, voice, image and video creation, the technology seems boundless. And now that Elon Musk has figured out how to connect 100,000 Nvidia chips in a high speed network, the opportunity just gets bigger. Among all the things we’ll ... Read more» The post The Most Powerful Feature of AI In Business: Interconnectedness appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
How do we redesign work around AI? There are four stages of transformation ahead, and the potential is bigger than we imagined.| JOSH BERSIN
The Definitive Guide to People Analytics: The Journey to Systemic Business Analytics Companies have more data than ever, but, in many cases, leveraging it to make informed talent and strategic business decisions proves challenging....| JOSH BERSIN
The HCM market is an $11 billion market, filled with HR and payroll platforms for companies of all sizes. The well-known leaders (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, UKG, dayforce) are filled with execs who have known the space for years. And thanks to their time in the market, these companies have thousands of customers so they ... Read more» The post HiBob: A Fast-Growing New Leader In The HCM Market appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
I’ve been a fan, advocate, and friend to HR for a long time. And in every discussion I have with HR teams, I’m impressed with the passion, commitment, and goodwill among HR teams everywhere. Yet despite our best intentions, a new survey of 851 business professionals found that “people trust AI more than they ... Read more» The post Wakeup Call for HR: Employees Trust AI More Than They Trust You appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
After decades of effort only 10% of companies correlate HR and people data to business results. AI is about to change this dramatically.| JOSH BERSIN
Can fewer people do more? Absolutely. And that's the them for growth in the decade ahead. Let's see if the Feds can pull it off.| JOSH BERSIN
The Big Reset: making sense of the Coronavirus crisis. What it means to individuals, business, leadership, and HR.| JOSH BERSIN
LinkedIn's AI-powered Hiring Assistant unleashes the power of AI Agents in the massive market for talent acquisition.| JOSH BERSIN
This week SuccessFactors announced a vast array of new features, focused on taking the lead in the red hot HCM war against Workday, Oracle, and others. These capabilities fall into four areas, each of which bring SAP into a leading position in many areas of the global HCM market. (Product details here.) As ... Read more» The post SuccessFactors Leapfrogs HCM Capabilities: AI, Skills, Talent Intelligence, And More appeared first on JOSH BERSIN.| JOSH BERSIN
Galileo™ the AI Expert Assistant for HR now includes trusted content in skills, leadership models, benchmarks, global employment practices.| JOSH BERSIN
Guild acquires Nomadic Learning, moving into the market for corporate skills academies and integrated L&D solution.| JOSH BERSIN
Digital twins, digital employees, and specialized AI agents are ready to revolutionize HR, IT, support, and every other job in the company.| JOSH BERSIN
Introducing Galileo Professional, the personal AI assistant for everything HR. Available for every HR professional and consultant today!| JOSH BERSIN
Today's Job Numbers clearly show that the new, post-industrial economy is here to stay. Here is my "tale of three curves" to explain.| JOSH BERSIN
Rippling introduces AI-generated performance reviews that really work. The tech isn't perfect yet, but this is coming faster than ever.| JOSH BERSIN
Check out the 30 AI in HR Trailblazers, pioneering real-world AI solutions in HR. Our 2025 Outlook report shows where HR Tech is going.| JOSH BERSIN
ADP Lyric HCM, a next-generation HR platform, is now available - demonstrating what a highly-flexible, AI-infused HR system can do.| JOSH BERSIN
Galileo™, from The Josh Bersin Company, now partners with Workday to build an integrated AI assistant for HR Professionals around the world.| JOSH BERSIN
Workday Illuminate is the new name for Workday AI, the integrated AI infrastructure driving hundreds of new features in Workday.| JOSH BERSIN
Growthspace uses an innovative skills model, AI, and a focused network of experts to deliver precision professional development that works.| JOSH BERSIN
AI Agents are coming fast, and this new era of Agentic AI will change our tech stack, our HR practices, and our way of getting things done.| JOSH BERSIN
Cornerstone Galaxy brings Skyhive data to create one of first skills-based LMS and integrated talent intelligence systems in the market.| JOSH BERSIN
Dropbox completely redesigned its operating model to be Virtual First. Results? The highest levels of engagement and productivity ever.| JOSH BERSIN
Introducing the HR Career Navigator: The World's AI-Powered Career Advisor for HR professionals at all levels.| JOSH BERSIN
Arist Creator brings AI to instructional design to deliver on the coming promises of autonomous corporate training systems.| JOSH BERSIN
