AI HR Daily by OVI

Enterprises are betting big on AI agents. But according to Workera's 2026 AI Skills Benchmark — built on more than 88,000 individual assessments — only 13% of employees actually reach an accomplished level in agentic AI. That makes it the lowest-ranked skill out of 14 measured. The gap between where companies are investing and where their people actually stand is no longer theoretical. It's measur...

AMD makes the chips that power AI. So when they deploy an AI HR agent across their entire 30,000-person workforce and report that it cut resolution times by 80%, that's not just a case study — it's a signal. In this episode, we dig into how AMD partnered with Kore.ai to give every employee instant, around-the-clock answers to HR questions — benefits, leave balances, policy lookups — without waitin...

More than half of talent acquisition leaders plan to deploy autonomous AI agents in their recruiting workflows this year. That's a big number. But here's the one that should really get your attention: only 11% say their executives are well-prepared to lead through that transition. Korn Ferry surveyed 1,674 TA leaders globally for their 2026 Talent Acquisition Trends report, and the results paint a...

Every major ATS vendor now markets "AI-powered hiring" — but what does that actually mean? In this episode, we break down what iCIMS Copilot, Greenhouse Real Talent AI, and Workday's AI stack really do under the hood. Spoiler: most of it faces the recruiter, not the candidate. We look at who's writing job descriptions for you, who's scoring applicants, and who — if anyone — is actually having a st...

At Lattiverse 2026 in San Francisco, Lattice made two announcements that could change how HR leaders think about performance management and AI measurement. First: Lattice is now the first performance platform to implement MCP — the Model Context Protocol — meaning managers can pull live performance data directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, and other AI tools without switching tabs. Second: AI Lev...

President Trump signed an executive order in December 2025 challenging state AI employment laws — but six months later, those laws are still on the books and fully enforceable. HR teams hoping to wait out the legal fight are taking a serious risk. In this episode, we break down exactly what the executive order does (and doesn't do), which state laws are under threat, and why 57% of HR professional...

There's a big legal battle brewing between the Trump administration and state governments over who gets to regulate AI in hiring — and most HR teams are sitting it out, hoping it resolves before it becomes their problem. Spoiler: it won't. State AI employment laws are already enforceable, the DOJ has an active AI task force, and 57% of HR professionals don't even know the laws that apply to them....

The EU just provisionally agreed to push back the deadline for high-risk hiring AI compliance by 16 months — from August 2026 to December 2027. That sounds like great news for HR teams scrambling to get ready. But here's the thing: it's not final yet, and there are two major categories of AI Act rules that aren't deferred at all. In this episode, we break down what the Digital AI Omnibus actually...

Most companies think they're tracking AI adoption. They're not. They're tracking activity — logins, tokens, prompt counts — and calling it a strategy. At Lattiverse 2026, Lattice CEO Sarah Franklin drew a line between quantity signals and quality signals, and announced a product designed to cross it: AI Leverage Insights. AI Leverage Insights connects AI tool usage data directly to employee perfor...

Deloitte just dropped its 2026 Global Human Capital Trends report — a massive survey of over 9,000 business and HR leaders across 89 countries — and the headline number is striking: 70% of leaders say being fast and nimble is their top competitive strategy. But only 6% are actually doing the hard work of designing how humans and AI work together. In this episode, we break down why the technology-f...

What if the secret to getting your entire workforce to actually use AI tools wasn't about the tools at all — it was about training? BBVA, the Spanish banking giant, figured this out in a pretty clever way: you can't access any AI tool at the bank until you complete EU AI Act-aligned training first. No training, no ChatGPT. And the result? 105,000 employees enrolled in their Gemini Express program...

What if the biggest barrier to your talent strategy wasn't technology — it was your managers? Novartis asked exactly that question, and the answer led to one of the most striking internal mobility transformations in enterprise HR. In this episode, we break down how Novartis used an AI-powered talent marketplace and a bold cultural philosophy called "unbossed" leadership to unlock $3.7 million in w...

McKinsey's 2026 HR Monitor surveyed 1,300 HR professionals and 5,500 employees across 10 countries — and the headline finding is a paradox: 80% of organizations have deployed AI in HR, but only 20% have redesigned how work actually gets done. In this episode, we dig into what that deployment-transformation gap really means, and why it matters more than the headline numbers suggest. We explore the...

Skillsoft's 2026 Workforce Readiness Report just landed, and the numbers should make every HR leader uncomfortable. Eighty-six percent of employees are using AI tools at work — but only 24% feel equipped to use them effectively. That 62-point gap between adoption and actual readiness tells you something important: deploying AI tools is not the same as enabling your workforce. But the most striking...

Greenhouse just dropped the most concentrated AI product push in its history — and it's a fascinating bet. While some ATS players are racing toward fully autonomous hiring, Greenhouse is going the other direction: AI that makes human decisions sharper, not AI that replaces them. In just six weeks, the company launched MCP — a governed protocol that lets AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini pl...

Frontline hiring has long been plagued by one frustrating reality: candidates drop out. Multi-page forms, slow callback queues, and clunky portals kill momentum for hourly workers who are often applying from a phone on a break. That's the problem Workday just made it their mission to solve. On January 8, 2026, Workday launched the Paradox Conversational ATS natively inside its platform. This isn't...

Your team just hit 50 people. Hiring is chaos. Spreadsheets are breaking. And every week, a great candidate falls through the cracks. You know you need an ATS — but which one? In 2026, there's a massive fork in the road: AI-native platforms that actually do the work, versus legacy systems with a chatbot sticker slapped on top. In this episode, we break down four platforms that keep showing up on S...

AI isn't just changing what skills you need — it's making your existing ones expire faster than ever. According to the TalentLMS Speed-to-Skill Report, only 16% of companies can actually build skills quickly when new needs arise. That means 84% of organizations are already falling behind. The data from 1,500 U.S. workers is striking: nearly half say some of their job skills became outdated in the...

The compliance clock is ticking. Colorado's AI hiring law takes effect June 30, 2026 — and 78% of companies using AI screening tools can't produce the documentation regulators want. In this episode, we break down what the new rules mean, why unstructured phone screens are now a liability, and how OVI's Milo agent turns every audio screening into an audit-ready record. We cover the three overlappin...

What if the best hire you could make is someone already on your payroll? Standard Chartered Bank decided to test that idea — and the results are hard to argue with. Since 2023, the global bank has saved $55 million in hiring costs by building an AI-powered internal talent marketplace that now fills more than half of all open roles from within. That's not a rounding error. That's a strategic shift....

We expected AI to lighten everyone's workload — especially managers. But a fresh Gartner survey of nearly 3,000 employees says the opposite is happening. Nearly half of all managers say they're working harder today than a year ago, not less. So what went wrong? The problem isn't the technology. It's the vacuum around it. When AI frees up employee time, someone has to decide what to do with it. And...

Oracle officially stopped selling Taleo to new customers in February 2026 — and the legacy ATS era is finally catching up with enterprise HR. But the scramble for replacements is revealing an uncomfortable truth: SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle Recruiting Cloud are just rearranging the same old furniture. In this episode, we break down what the Taleo sunset actually signals — and why the two most ob...

What if the biggest ROI in recruiting wasn't better sourcing or faster screening — but fixing the application experience itself? Chipotle just cut time-to-hire from 12 days to four, and bumped application completion from 50% to 85%, simply by replacing a clunky form with an AI-powered text conversation. In this episode, we dig into two landmark enterprise case studies: Chipotle's deployment of the...

The workers most enthusiastic about AI are also the ones losing the most from it. Gen Z adopts AI at higher rates than any other generation — 83% of them use it at work, and many rely on it for more than half their daily tasks. Yet the data shows they're facing steeper wage declines and more job displacement than their older colleagues. Meanwhile, experienced workers who use AI more selectively ar...

Here is a number that should stop HR leaders cold: half of Gen Z workers now go to AI before asking their manager a question. Not sometimes — routinely. That is not an adoption stat, that is a structural shift in how information flows at work. In this episode, we break down the generational AI gap by the numbers — from Gen Z's 83% adoption rate to boomers' 52% — and why the gap is not really about...