• Crowning a new winner: New York unseats San Francisco as the top market for tech talent;
• Putting senses over skills: Looks matter more than resume in first impressions, study says;
• Raising wiretapping concerns: The Otter.ai consent ruling should give HR tech buyers pause;
• Forcing workers to clue together outputs: Why standalone tech drains workforce productivity;
• Transforming higher ed: MIT study finds AI can now complete most undergraduate assignments,
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It should come as no surprise that the number of artificial intelligence-specific tech workers is growing rapidly, and the effect of this growth on regional office markets is substantial. For the first time, New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers, thanks in large part to AI, according to a new report from CBRE. New York’s 394,300 tech talent jobs edged out the San Francisco Bay Area’s 375,730 jobs, CBRE found. The report analyzes tech-specific workers in 75 metropolitan markets in the U.S. and Canada. It’s the first time New York has taken the lead in the 13 years of this analysis.
What makes a good first impression at work? For better or worse, physical appearance, along with communication style, reigns supreme, according to researchers. They found that these first impressions could factor into talent cycle decisions in the following weeks and even months, publishing their findings this month in the journal Personnel Psychology.
AI note-takers and meeting recording tools have quickly become standard across corporate workflows. From automated interview notes to internal performance check-ins, tools like Otter.ai, Gong, and Metaview save recruiters and HR managers hours of administrative effort each week. However, a recent federal court decision allowing wiretapping and privacy claims to proceed against Otter.ai has drawn a clear line: convenience does not bypass statutory wiretapping laws.
Disconnected artificial intelligence tools are inadvertently creating more manual work for employees rather than driving true efficiency. A recent global research report from Workday surveyed 6,100 professionals to uncover why AI in HR is currently stalling. The study, titled The Copy/Paste Economy: Why Task-Oriented AI is Failing the Enterprise, was conducted alongside The Harris Poll. It found that task-oriented AI often forces workers to act as the manual glue between disconnected enterprise systems.
Generative artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly and producing such massive, long-term disruptions to education that a committee at MIT proposed profound changes Tuesday to counter the technology’s risks. The technologies are now able to credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, wrote the committee, co-chaired by professors Eric Klopfer and Samuel Madden. Most classes at MIT should be reviewed, and many will need substantial changes, they wrote, urging instructors to consider other means of assessment — including oral exams, portfolios and in-person conversations tied to work done outside class.
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