Sage Report: HR Professionals Ready to Embrace AI in the Face of Burnout

With today’s workforce constantly evolving, businesses are turning to technology and embracing AI to help navigate the changes of an expanding labour force, ease workloads within their operations, and improve job satisfaction.

Today, small and mid-sized business accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology leader, Sage, published findings from their annual ‘The Changing Face of HR’ global report, which highlights how HR professionals are using AI for the aforementioned, while also boosting competitiveness and creating jobs in the industry.

The research revealed that:

  • Top concerns for HR professionals include increasing workloads (80%), low employee morale and burnout (79%), and limited budgets (79%)
  • The role of HR will change considerably due to AI (80%) and implementing AI in HR tasks will create more jobs (71%)
  • There’s a significant shift towards automation and analytics; HR leaders are currently using HR metrics (45%), utilizing automation (44%), and employing cloud HR solutions (43%)
  • HR leaders believe AI has the potential to revolutionize ways of working within their company (77%), freeing up time to focus on strategic planning (61%), data-driven decision-making (59%), and employee engagement (59%).

You can read the report here.

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