In Episode 23, of Season 5 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Angela Le Mathon, Vice President; People Data & Analytics at GSK, where they discuss the role of HR in an Agentic AI enabled world and it's implications on the workforce, which includes;

• Differences between applying analytics in HR versus other domains.
• Why people analytics is usually an afterthought.
• Why other business areas get more funding for analytics work.
• How large companies are using data and analytics to manage their workforce.
• Why people and skills can’t be measured equally.
• The key metrics that organisations expect from people analytics.
• Why the sophistication of GenAI has helped HR and people analytics.
• The impact that AI is likely to have on the workforce.
• The rise of the digital workforce.
• How humans and agents will co-exist.
• Why execs will have to change the way they manage their organisation.
• Why HR has the opportunity to reinvent itself.
• Why workforce planning and org design will be critical to success in an Agentic AI world.
• How the roles undertaken by humans will change.
• Why skills will become less important.
• Why L&D budgets will reduce as a by-product of agents.
• Why humans will be forced to step up their game.
• The two waves of Agentic Ai implications on the workforce.
• Figuring out what humans do with the extra time that they’ll have.
• What organisations need to do to be Agentic AI ready.
• Why the relationship between HR and Technology will need to transform.
• Why People Analytics will become part of the core Data Leadership team.
• Figuring out how ‘at risk’ you’ll be.
• Navigating DEI though the lens of people/HR data and analytics.
• The future of HR in an AI world.

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