AI HR Daily by OVI

JPMorgan Chase has built a real-time dashboard that tracks GitHub Copilot usage across its 65,000-strong engineering team — and as of early 2026, that data feeds directly into performance reviews. Every engineer gets classified as a heavy user, light user, or non-user, making AI adoption a formal career metric for the first time at a major regulated financial institution. The move reflects a funda...

The numbers don't lie — and they're a little alarming. Gartner says 82% of HR leaders plan to deploy autonomous AI agents within the next 12 months. Meanwhile, Deloitte finds that only 21% of organizations have a mature governance model for those same agents. That's not a technology gap. That's a liability gap. In this episode, we break down the agentic AI readiness crisis in HR. We're talking abo...

New data from Qualtrics is sending a mixed signal to HR leaders: AI adoption is driving a massive boost in employee engagement, but your newest hires are the most disengaged cohort in five years. The 2026 Employee Experience Trends Report surveyed nearly 34,000 workers across 24 countries, and the findings are impossible to ignore. Here's the headline: employees who use AI daily or weekly show a f...

Three AI-powered applicant tracking systems are competing for startup hiring budgets in 2026 — and they couldn't be more different. OVI, Dover, and Kula all promise to fix your hiring process, but the tools, the philosophies, and the price points vary wildly. Picking the wrong one could mean overpaying for features you don't need, or underinvesting at exactly the wrong moment. In this episode, we...

Josh Bersin just dropped a blueprint for the future of HR — and the headline number is alarming: HR departments could lose 30 to 50 percent of their headcount by 2030. But here's the twist: Bersin's own data says that if cost-cutting is your primary goal, you're leaving a 10 to 100 times bigger payoff on the table. In this episode, we break down The Josh Bersin Company's HR 2030 Blueprint, release...

AI agents are now handling some of the most sensitive data in your organization — employee salaries, benefits, performance reviews. But until now, there was no standard way to verify those agents were actually safe before they went live. Workday just changed that. In this episode, we break down Agent Passport — Workday's new three-layer governance framework for AI agents. It covers pre-deployment...

What happens when a major company stops asking "how do we adopt AI?" and starts asking "how do we govern a workforce that builds its own AI agents?" That's exactly where Lumen Technologies is right now — and the implications for HR leaders are massive. In this episode, we break down how Lumen Technologies turned its entire workforce into AI agent builders. We're talking about a company-wide platfo...

The headlines are screaming about AI layoffs — 1,100 a day in 2026, with more than half explicitly citing AI as the cause. But new data from iCIMS tells a completely different story underneath those numbers. Demand for AI-specific roles just surged 15%, even as applications dropped 10%. That's a 25-point gap, and for talent leaders paying attention, it's one of the biggest competitive windows in y...

Staffing agencies in 2026 face a real fork in the road: stick with legacy ATS software that's bolting on AI as an afterthought, go with an AI-native CRM that stops short of full screening, or jump to a platform where AI runs the entire workflow through natural chat. Bullhorn, Loxo, and OVI each represent one of those paths — and the differences go way deeper than a feature checklist. In this episo...

What does it actually look like when AI goes from pilot project to daily habit across an entire global workforce? PepsiCo pulled it off — 90 to 95 percent of their 320,000-plus employees are using Microsoft Copilot every single workday. Not just licensed. Actually using it. That's a number that should stop every HR and tech leader in their tracks. In this episode, we break down the three-layer AI...

Fraudulent candidates have officially overtaken talent scarcity as the #1 hiring challenge of 2026, according to SHRM's Recruiting Executives Priorities and Perspectives report. And Gartner projects that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles worldwide will be fake. The threat is real, it's accelerating, and most companies don't have a plan. From synthetic AI-generated resumes to deepfake proxy i...

Here's the finding nobody expected: AI is automating tens of millions of jobs, and yet actual job displacement risk is going down. SHRM's 2026 Automation and AI report tracked over 20,000 U.S. workers and found something that rewrites the conventional AI-jobs narrative. The number that stands out is 23.2 million — that's how many jobs now have more than half their tasks automated. But here's the t...

General Mills didn't buy a specialized AI-for-HR platform — they grew one from a writing assistant. MillsChat launched in 2023 as an internal chatbot for 900 employees, helping them draft documents and summarize meetings. Two years later, it's processing performance reviews for 20,000 people across four countries. That kind of evolution doesn't happen by accident. The secret wasn't the technology...

Most small and mid-sized companies start their hiring journey inside their HRIS — BambooHR, HiBob, or something similar. And for a while, it works fine. But what happens when you hit 80 or 100 employees and have five roles open at once? That's when the cracks show. In this episode, we dig into the real difference between HRIS-bundled recruiting tools and a purpose-built AI-native ATS. Spoiler: Bam...

HiBob, BambooHR, and Freshteam are genuinely great HR platforms. But their built-in recruiting modules share the same hidden flaw: they're passive trackers that log what recruiters do manually. They don't find candidates. They don't screen them. They wait. And in 2026, that gap between an HRIS recruiting module and a purpose-built AI-native ATS has become impossible to ignore. In this episode, we...

What if your company could cut thousands of jobs and still fill nearly half of all open roles from within? That's exactly what Ericsson pulled off — and the secret is a deliberate three-layer skills infrastructure, not a training mandate. In this episode, we break down how Ericsson went from 300 AI scientists to 30,000 AI-proficient employees in five years, while simultaneously restructuring its w...

Not all applicant tracking systems are created equal. In 2026, the ATS market has split into distinct tiers — and the gap between them has never been wider. This episode breaks down four platforms: OVI, Comeet (now Spark Hire Recruit), Pinpoint, and Recruiteze. We look at what each one actually does for your team day-to-day — not just the feature list, but whether it reduces recruiter workload or...

PwC just dropped their 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer — one billion job postings, 27 countries — and the headline is striking: AI isn't replacing workers wholesale. It's splitting the labour market into two tracks, and the gap between them is widening fast. The most jaw-dropping finding? Entry-level hires in AI-exposed roles are now seven times more likely to need senior-level skills like judgment...

HR is scaling up AI management tools faster than ever — but there's a problem hiding in plain sight. The very tools designed to drive performance and efficiency are measurably destroying the one ingredient AI needs most: psychological safety. In this episode, we unpack a striking paradox revealed by two landmark studies. An MIT Technology Review and Infosys survey of 500-plus global leaders found...

If you work in HR, you know the drill: Finance runs the headcount models in their system, you submit a request via email or a spreadsheet, and three weeks later you get back a scenario that's already out of date. Anaplan's Workforce Analyst AI agent is built to fix exactly that — by embedding a conversational AI analyst directly inside the same connected planning platform Finance already uses. Wit...

Employee attrition is one of the most expensive problems in business, but a new wave of AI-powered prediction tools is changing the game — and the savings run into the hundreds of millions. In this episode, we break down how IBM, ADP, and Credit Suisse have deployed predictive attrition models that identify flight-risk employees before they hand in their notice. IBM's system hit 95% accuracy and s...

SHRM's 2026 State of AI in HR report surveyed nearly 2,000 HR professionals and landed on a finding that reframes everything: the number-one barrier to AI adoption isn't cost or technology — it's awareness. 67% of organizations say their HR teams simply don't know what AI can do. In this episode, we dig into what that means and why it matters more than most HR leaders realize. We cover the complia...

LinkedIn has a billion members. Indeed has 300 million candidate profiles. Together they dominate the talent marketplace — but in 2026, sourcing candidates is the easy part. The hard part is everything that comes after. In this episode, we break down three fundamentally different approaches to AI-powered hiring and ask the question most teams aren't asking: do you need a sourcing tool, or do you n...

Here's a stat that stops you in your tracks: 70 percent of the most in-demand skills for 2026 are human skills — leadership, communication, problem-solving. Not coding. Not AI certifications. Human skills. And at the same time, skills tied to actually using AI on the job? They shot up 109 percent year-over-year on Degreed's platform. That's the paradox driving Degreed's biggest product cycle in ye...

The workforce skills crisis has a surprising shape in 2026: seventy percent of the most in-demand skills are human-centric — leadership, communication, problem-solving — while AI application skills grew 109% year-over-year on Degreed's own platform. Yet most enterprises are still running on legacy LMS platforms built for compliance tracking, not capability building. That tension is exactly what De...