Josh Bersin

Josh Bersin
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Insights on Corporate Talent, Learning, and HR Technology

  1. HACE 1 DÍA

    Jennifer Morgan, CEO of UKG, Wants To Reinvigorate The Global Economy Around Frontline Work

    I had an uplifting conversation with Jen Morgan, the CEO of UKG, a $5 billion global AI platform for HR, pay, and workforce management. In addition to talking about the company and her role as CEO, she actually has another mission: to put Frontline Workers first in our economy. Frontline workers, the people who deliver groceries and food, care for patients in the hospital, work in hospitality, or maintain public safety, make up 72% of the US workforce and almost 80% of employees worldwide. These often hourly or shift workers form the backbone of our economy: making our lives better, putting out fires, and keeping our streets safe. UKG’s mission is to make their work lives better through better scheduling, pay, benefits, hiring, and training systems – all in an integrated offering called “The Workforce Operating Platform.” Built through the merger of Kronos with Ultimate Software in 2020, UKG has pioneered this groundbreaking integrated solution. UKG has more than 80,000 customers and serves more than 65 million workers every day. And its software and tools support and monitor much of their daily lives at work, so Jen knows a lot about what it takes to run what we call a “Frontline First” company. I know you’ll enjoy this conversation, and stay tuned for our new research on the Dynamics Of The Frontline, coming this month. Additional Information UKG Stakes Out Leadership Position In $6.5 Trillion Market For Frontline Work Powering the Frontline Workforce: How Frontline-First Companies Thrive Josh Bersin Company Highlights Cost of Neglecting Frontline Workers Get Galileo, The AI Superagent for HR Chapters (00:00:00) - Meet Ukg CEO Jen Morgan(00:00:20) - In the Elevator With Ukg.com's CEO(00:02:22) - The U and the K: Ultimate Software and Kronos(00:06:06) - Immortal on the Future of the Workforce(00:13:51) - Top Employers: The Great Place to Work(00:20:05) - UKG CEO on the Impact of AI on the Company(00:26:42) - Mid-Market Companies: Our Role(00:27:28) - Top Executives: The World Class Organization

    30 min

  2. HACE 4 DÍAS

    The AI vs. Labor Economy, Why Benefits Are Being Cut, The Role of Legacy Systems

    This week we saw some astounding GDP numbers, a modest 2% growth with an astounding 70% attributed to AI capital spending. The US economy is heavily AI centric, starving spending on housing which ultimately contributes to income inequality. At the same time companies are now reducing employee benefits, halting a two decade steady increase. It’s all about the shift from labor to machines, I guess. I also talk about the role of legacy systems in the new world of Agentic HR, Agentic Finance, and Agentic ERP. Lots going on, I hope this gives you some perspective on the massive AI economic transformation we’re living in. It’s all good and one of the most exciting times in our careers. Additional Information Why AI Is A Massive Job-Creation Technology, Despite What You Think Introducing HR 2030: A Vision For Agentic Human Resources The Reinvention of Workday: From System of Record to Platform of Agents The Superagent for HR: Galileo Mars Release Irresistible 2026: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and their Teams (June 8-10, USC) Chapters (00:00:00) - Economy and the Stock Market(00:02:33) - Some Companies Are Reducing Employee Benefits(00:08:17) - The Role of Managers(00:12:59) - The Legacy of Salesforce, Workday(00:18:54) - Want to pitch your AI Stories? Here!

    20 min

  3. HACE 6 DÍAS

    How RecruitMilitary Uses AI to Transform Veteran Hiring

    What does it take to bridge one of the most persistent translation problems in talent acquisition – getting a Fortune 500 recruiter to see why a Little Bird attack helicopter pilot from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is the perfect candidate for their open role? Tim Best, CEO of RecruitMilitary and former active duty Army officer, gives us a mission-driven and practical answer: go beyond the resume. Resumes and job descriptions flatten people. And for veterans, who enter the civilian workforce carrying hundreds of thousands of skills and attributes that don’t map to corporate job architectures, that flatness is the enemy. The technology RecruitMilitary built with Findem, the Veteran Talent Source, solves this by giving recruiters a three-dimensional view of who a candidate actually is: not just what they did, but what they’ve continuously become. Because profiles are enriched in real time, the candidate in someone’s ATS today is not the candidate from 25 years ago – and the AI knows the difference. The results are outstanding. In 2025, RecruitMilitary created over 600,000 connections between employers and military community job seekers. The hyper-personalized outreach campaigns powered by the Veteran Talent Source are generating email open rates of 80–90% and click-through rates five times higher than industry norms. These aren’t just efficiency gains but create a fundamentally better experience for veterans, who have long lived with the frustration of applying and never hearing back. Tim’s vision is for veterans inundated with recruiters who understand them, not spam from algorithms that don’t. But Tim’s ambitions go further than better sourcing. He wants veteran hiring to stop being a special project that lives in a corner of the TA function and instead become a normal part of a recruiter’s everyday workflow, all made possible by AI. Looking ahead to the agentic AI era, Tim sees the next leap: intelligent job posting and agent-driven delivery that reduces friction between “here’s my job description” and “here are the right people to talk to” to (almost) nothing. This conversation is essential listening for anyone in talent acquisition who wants to understand how AI creates new business value, not just faster versions of the old model. Related resources Podcast: Why AI Is A Massive Job Creation Technology. Automated Integration. Findem. And Thank You. Research: Insights-First AI: Better and Explainable People Decisions Research: The Talent Acquisition Revolution: How AI is Transforming Recruiting Chapters (00:00:03) - What Works: The Future of Talent(00:00:40) - Interview: Tim Best on Recruit Military's AI(00:03:27) - What Recruit Military Jobs?(00:05:21) - David Furnace, Head of Veteran Talent at HR Tech(00:08:32) - The Veteran Talent Source(00:15:57) - Veteran Recruitment Tech(00:17:04) - What's The Challenge of AI at Work?(00:19:39) - What lessons learned would you share with employers about AI and the role(00:22:03) - Machine Learning and the Veteran Talent Market(00:24:26) - What Works With Recruit Military

    25 min

  4. 27 ABR

    The Reinvention of Workday: From System of Record to Platform of Agents

    This week I discuss Workday’s new AI announcements described at the Innovation Summit last week. These are sweeping new product, leadership, and organizational changes that effectively reposition from a “system of record” to a “platform of agents.” As you’ll hear, not only is Workday clearly articulating their strategy to support and enable Agentic HR and Agentic Finance, the company has changed its organization, culture, and financial model. There’s a lot to unpack here, and I know all Workday customers, partners, and competitors will have opinions. In this podcast I try to explain this whole story and why it marks the beginning of a very new chapter for Workday as a business. Additional Information Experience Sana for Yourself: Galileo Mars Release Irresistible 2026: The Global Conference for HR Leaders and their Teams (June 8-10, USC) HR 2030: The Agentic Future of HR (detailed handbook coming!) Detailed Article on Workday   Chapters (00:00:00) - The Reinvention of Workday(00:07:17) - The Future of Application Development with Generative AI(00:10:33) - Agents and the AI future(00:18:57) - Employee Experience: A Vision for the Future

    24 min

  5. 24 ABR

    Workday's New Strategy, Enterprise AI Maturity, Meta Layoffs, and Surveillance

    This week I recap a busy week including corporate AI stories, Workday’s AI reinvention, more on tech Layoffs, and fears of AI-driven surveillance. The important story is that Enterprise AI is much more complex than most imagine yet the AI vendors like Anthropic and OpenAI make it sound deceptively simple. In reality, as I explain, we are one year into the total reinvention of all business functions, with HR top on the list. And as I explain, the vision of enterprise success is now clear, but the vendor market is incredibly insecure. I think you’ll find Workday’s story compelling, but it’s not the only option out there. On the news side, we saw the “pre-layoffs” of 10% of all Meta employees, elimination of family benefits at Deloitte and Zoom, and some amazingly creepy surveillance at Meta’s AI group. I review all this and try to give you some context. As you listen I encourage you to read our 2026 Enterprise AI Imperatives and the preview of HR 2030, our in-depth look at where AI in HR is going. An in-depth review of Workday’s new AI strategy is coming this next week. Additional Resources Meta Employees React to Massive Layoffs to Come Deloitte and Zoom Take the Lead in Slashing the Most Coveted Benefits The week that Meta employees became training data Why AI Is A Massive Job-Creation Technology, Despite What You Think Workday and Sana Unveil A Bold New Strategy For AI Chapters (00:00:00) - Enterprise AI: Where we are?(00:02:10) - Workday's AI push with Sana(00:09:53) - WSJD Live: The Workday World(00:11:10) - Agent Companies: What to Avoid(00:13:36) - Microsoft's Layoffs, and More(00:18:07) - Facebook's Surveillance of Employees

    22 min

  6. 21 ABR ·  VIDEO

    How One Of The Nation's Largest Universities Uses AI To Revolutionize Education

    In this episode, Kathi Enderes sits down with Rob McAuslan, Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), one of the world’s largest and most innovative online universities with more than 200,000 students. Before leading SNHU’s AI strategy, Rob taught, worked, and volunteered across Africa, the Mediterranean, and East Asia, working with populations ranging from K-12 students to refugees to graduate scholars. That lived experience shapes everything about how SNHU thinks about AI: not as a tool for automation, but as a means of expanding access, amplifying human potential, and meeting learners exactly where they are. SNHU is no ordinary university. As one of the largest and most innovative higher education institutions in the United States, it has built its reputation on making education accessible to learners who the traditional system has often left behind: working adults, career changers, veterans, and underserved communities. Rob’s role as VP for AI sits squarely at the intersection of that mission and the most consequential technological shift of our time. Rob and Kathi discuss what it really means to deploy AI with humans at the center, and what that demands of institutions, leaders, and learners alike. The conversation moves through the practical and the philosophical: How do you design AI experiences that honor the dignity and complexity of every individual? What does skills-based, AI-enabled learning look like for someone who has never had access to it before? And what can higher education teach the corporate world about building AI that actually serves people rather than simply processing them? If you’re a CHRO, CIO, learning leader, or business executive wondering how to move beyond pilots and hype, this conversation will show you what responsible, scalable AI adoption really looks like—and how to get started in your own organization. Related resources Podcast: The Rise Of The Supermanager – JOSH BERSIN Research: AI Pacesetters: Six Secrets Of The Superworker Company – JOSH BERSIN New Certificate Course in Galileo Learn: AI in L&D Get Galileo: The AI Superagent for You Chapters (00:00:03) - What Works in the Future of Work(00:00:40) - How Southern New Hampshire University Is Taking a Human Approach to AI(00:02:58) - How to Apply AI at Southern New Hampshire University(00:07:49) - Southern New Hampshire University's 4-Stage AI Adoption Model(00:14:16) - One of the issues around AI governance(00:19:13) - Employee Experience and AI in the People Team(00:21:43) - WSJD Live: The AI Policy(00:23:32) - In the Elevator With Provost Rob Ferguson(00:24:06) - What Works In Education? With Rob McAuslan

    25 min

  7. 17 ABR

    Important Issues Of Leadership, Trust and Culture Behind Big AI Companies

    This week, as Ronan Farrow’s expose on Sam Altman was published, I want to sensitize you to the fact that AI companies are run by humans. And this means that what we buy and how it works is very dependent on leadership, culture, values, ethics, and the personal motivations of these young, ambitious executives. Obviously this is nothing new, but in this case OpenAI and Anthropic are by far the fastest growing businesses ever created on planet earth. So their ability to steer, direct, and prioritize their investments makes a huge difference in how they meet the needs we have in our companies. I have learned over the years that great, long-lasting tech companies are among the most tumultuous businesses to lead. Not only are the personal economic payoffs huge (I live in a community with lots of Anthropic millionaires) but they are brutally competitive and the cost of a missed opportunity can sometimes be fatal. In this case, I admire all the people in this space but as the AI vendors play larger roles in our lives and careers, we have to think much harder about their leadership and culture. As you’ll hear, many others (analysts, stock market, politicians) are also working on this, and I think we’re likely to see some of the most interesting business “drama” play out in the coming years. As a consumer and buyer of AI, I encourage you to investigate the leadership, culture, and motivations of the vendors you do business with – it really matters. Additional Information New Yorker Expose on Sam Altman Interview with Ronan Farrow, author Irresistible: The Leadership Culture that Works The Value of Values When Organizations Lose Trust Get Galileo: All Our Research and Leadership Academy In AI   Chapters (00:00:00) - The Human Side of Building AI(00:02:40) - Microsoft and the Human Side of AI(00:10:59) - The culture of startups(00:17:57) - NVIDIA and the future of tech

    20 min

  8. 13 ABR

    Why Microsoft Could Outpace Anthropic and OpenAI In Enterprise AI

    The Microsoft Copilot is even more expansive than you think. In this podcast (and detailed article on Substack) you see how Microsoft’s new Copilot “surface” (ie. product strategy) is likely to give them the lead in revenue and market share for Enterprise AI. There are many players to consider here: Anthropic, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, and vendors like ServiceNow, Okta, and big platforms like Workday (Sana), SAP (Joule), Salesforce, and others. Despite all their various strengths and revenue streams, Microsoft has a huge advantage. And as you’ll hear, the corporate AI market is moving from “models” to “applications” (Surfaces) with an enterprise focus on Agent build, Agent deployment, Agent security, and Agent management. Microsoft is building to this direction and the recent leadership reorganization is fueling this momentum. Read this in-depth analysis of Microsoft vs. Anthropic vs. OpenAI revenue and enterprise AI strategy. Additional Information How Microsoft Could Take The Lead In Enterprise AI (substack) The Context Layer (Semantic Layer) In Enterprise AI And Where Business Rules Go (podcast) Why AI Is A Massive Job-Creation Technology, Despite What You Think The Age of the Superworker (and Supermanager) Get Galileo: The AI Superagent for HR   Chapters (00:00:00) - Why Microsoft Is the Leader in AI(00:02:41) - The Future of AI: No One Model(00:09:52) - Microsoft's Work IQ and the Context Layer(00:21:01) - SANA vs. Microsoft: How Microsoft Will Win

    21 min
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    Josh Bersin
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    2020 - 2026
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