2020 will be a year when the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be here, predicts the World Economic Forum. It is said that many job roles will turn obsolete due to the advent of artificial intelligence, robotics and automation. The skill set required for today’s job roles will be transformed due to the changes in technology. 65% of today’s children entering the primary school might end up with jobs that do not even exist yet.

As HR enters an entirely new era of the future of work, their aim is focused on contemplating what the current workforce requires of them. They need to think how the current technology will reinvent the role of human resource professional and how it will future proof the current workforce to drive change. But is this the new HR? Will usage of artificial intelligence make the human resources less human?

This may seem positive for HR professionals and as a matter of fact, AI is basically used so that the recruitment process could be streamlined. Artificial intelligence helps conducting brief candidate research and it also allows the chatbot technology to decipher the top most questions needed to ask the employees. However, beyond even recruitment, AI could also help highlight performance issues, make changes in employee sentiment, or make a recommendation on termination of an employment and so on.

All these may sound cool and happening, but as an industry that heavily relies on human workforce, could AI really be of help as it promises to be?

As the HR field now completely depends on artificial intelligence to perform their tasks, developing a workforce with AI competency is a challenging task.

The good news is, the future of HR is already in dependency of artificial intelligence. As we’re halfway through 2019, let us have a glance at how AI and human intelligence have transformed the current workforce.