Human Cloud

Every staffing firm wants AI to be the thing that finally disrupts the industry. Nycole Rosen has spent 26 years inside those firms, as a recruiter, a trainer, and a CIO, and she has yet to find one with data clean enough to point AI at. Five ATSs stitched together through connectors, processes that...

In August, Cisco gave 90,000 employees an AI agent. Bob Cicero expects each of them to run ten before long. When digital workers take over the focus work, what's left for humans is collaboration, and that changes what the office is for. Bob has spent two decades at Cisco building workplaces that sen...

The best engineer for your next project might be in Romania. The best accountant might be in Mexico. For most companies, hiring them used to mean registering an entity, waiting eight months, and hoping the market worked out. So they didn't. Growth stayed capped at whoever they could find, and afford...

Everyone in go-to-market got the same memo: blast a million emails, automate LinkedIn, plug in an AI SDR, and watch the pipeline fill. It is not working. Inboxes are numb, positive replies get answered by bots, and the CEOs who tried to automate the whole revenue team are not doing well. Whatever is...

The contingent workforce is the one corner of business where the playbooks are not public. Banks, the Big Four, and Fortune 500 programs do not publish how they run their VMS, vet a freelancer, or catch candidate fraud. That knowledge lives in people's heads. Which means the leaders who win are the ...

Everyone wants to talk about AI in the front office: matching, interviewing, diagnosis, the sexy stuff. Almost nobody is talking about the back office, where administrative burden has quietly become the biggest cost in the system. In healthcare, the number of doctors and nurses has stayed roughly fl...

The tech industry laid off thousands of people 18 months ago. This past year it hired almost all of them back, nearly one to one. That whiplash is what happens when companies chase AI headlines instead of a workforce strategy. Technology does not create value. People working with technology create v...

The share of workers in traditional full-time jobs shrinks every year. Companies that keep fishing in that pond are competing over a smaller and smaller pool. The talent that is actually growing works on contract, works remotely, and lives on the other side of state lines most employers are not set ...

Every founder running a talent solution gets the same email. A broker, a strategic, a private equity associate, asking whether you would ever consider a conversation. Most founders have no framework for answering, so they either ignore it or take a meeting they were never ready for. Mark Herbick has...

Most AI headcount conversations start in the wrong place. A leader sees a 20% workforce reduction and a 10% stock bump and calls it strategy. Maruf Ahmed has watched three technology waves roll through the talent market from inside a company that staffs half the Fortune 500, and he thinks that math ...