Talent Trends & Insights

Most conversations about AI at work focus on what it can do.

There’s a particular kind of insight you only get when someone who knows an industry inside out finds themselves navigating it as a candidate.

I’ve been on a fair few podcasts over the years – as well as hosting my own HR Means Business – but it’s often the conversations that end up somewhere unexpected that are the ones that stay with me.

Mervyn Dinnen Writer / Speaker / Podcast Host / Analyst / Top 100 HR Tech Influencer / co-author of the books Digital Talent & Exceptional Talent The questions most organisations are asking about AI is the wrong one: What is AI doing to our culture?

If you’ve ever watched a Baby Boomer express frustration at what they see as a lack of commitment from younger colleagues – or watched a Gen Z employee disengage the moment they feel invisible in a team – you’ve witnessed something that looks like a values

Every HR and Talent Acquisition conference right now seems to give roughly the same messaging – AI is transforming recruiting.

We know that there is no shortage of big claims about AI.

We are now managing five generations in the same workplace simultaneously.

If the European labour market feels confusing right now – that’s because it is.

For years, we’ve talked about visionary leaders at the top and empowered teams at the frontline.

There’s a familiar pattern playing out across organisations.

There’s a quiet revolution happening in workplaces.