Legal & General is cutting 1,000 jobs. Admiral is cutting 500. BBC Sport is cutting staff and axing bulletins. Novo Nordisk has shed 13,000 in the past year. Porsche could be next for another 4,000. Microsoft has started a fresh round tied to its Xbox "reset." Six companies, six sectors, one week. None of the people affected were in the room when any of those decisions got made, and neither, according to new research out this week, are most of the people whose job it technically is to be there: 46% of organisations exclude their CHRO from AI strategy decisions altogether. The same pattern, being decided about rather than decided with, runs through who gets hired, who gets promoted, and who gets believed this week too.
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