SHL survey: 19% of US respondents replaced by AI were asked back
Surveys from SHL and Robert Half suggest job cuts made for AI are often reversed, and returnees ask for more pay. What to cost before you cut a role.
HR and recruiting
Hire to retire.
- Covers
- Talent acquisition, onboarding, the HR helpdesk, learning, performance and workforce planning.
- Does not cover
- Payroll accounting (Finance); company-wide AI training programmes (Business operations).
Use cases
Deployments at a glance
All teams →| Company | Use case | Headline result | Stage | Evidence | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gap Inc. | Interview scheduling | More than 7,000 (June to Oct 2026)Interviews scheduled by the assistant | In production, one team | Company claim, no method |
Latest
All news →Gap Inc. says its AI hiring assistant has scheduled 7,000 interviews
Gap Inc. put an AI assistant on interview scheduling for hourly hiring before 200,000 seasonal applications. It gave counts, not time-to-hire or cost.
Anthropic: agents work 6x human hours; junior technical hires fell to 9%
Anthropic's own study of its workforce reports agents logging six times human hours, junior technical hires down from 27% to 9%, and humans as the bottleneck.
News
Anthropic's Claude Frontier Academy: $100M to train 10,000 engineers
Anthropic says it will spend $100 million to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by end-2027; each nominee leads a real Claude project for 12 weeks.