Protiviti Survey Finds Only 13% Of CHROs Confident In AI Workforce Readiness

The Common Question

Why are HR leaders less confident about AI readiness than other executives?

The Lesson in This Case

Only 13% of CHROs strongly agree their organizations are ready for AI – compared to 28% of other C-suite executives and a striking 96% of IT leaders – and that gap signals a structural problem, not a perception one. CHROs own workforce redesign, compensation restructuring, and career path reinvention, which means they see the full cost and complexity of scaling AI in ways that technology leaders simply do not. Senior leaders building AI business cases should treat CHRO skepticism as an early-warning system: if the executive accountable for people readiness isn't confident, the ROI timeline almost certainly needs to be reset.

Originally reported by HR Dive. Read the full story here.