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26/08/2026

Why AI Change Management Keeps Stalling in the Middle

{{MEDIA_banner}} Middle managers, not employees or executives, are the layer where enterprise AI adoption is most likely to stall. Two independent 2026 studies, an Infosys survey of 2,603 employees and Microsoft's Work Trend Index survey of 20,000 workers across ten countries, converge on the same conclusion from different angles: senior leaders are enthusiastic, frontline employees are experimenting, and the managers positioned between them are disengaged, unrewarded, and often reluctant to admit it....

25/08/2026

AI This Week by Working Intelligence — 19–25 August 2026

A weekly analytical brief on artificial intelligence worldwide Nvidia's $6 billion Poolside licence turned out to be a down payment on an American open-weight model built to displace DeepSeek and Kimi. Nvidia told its largest customers that AI server prices rise more than 15% in early 2027, on top of roughly 30% in July, as memory costs climb. The Dutch regulator fined Uber €825 million for deactivating drivers by algorithm, the largest penalty yet for automated decision-making....

A weekly analytical brief on artificial intelligence worldwide Nvidia’s $6 billion Poolside licence turned out to be a down payment on an American open-weight model built to displace DeepSeek…

25/08/2026

The Missing Rung: How AI Is Reshaping the Entry-Level Job Market

New data from Stanford and Harvard shows AI is not eliminating jobs so much as removing the first rung of the career ladder. Employment for 22-25 year-olds in AI-exposed occupations is now 19% below trend, driven almost entirely by slower hiring rather than layoffs....

23/08/2026

The Real AI Layoff Story Isn’t Entry-Level Jobs. It’s Middle Management.

The layer of the organization most exposed to AI-driven job cuts in 2026 is not the entry-level hire everyone has been writing about. It is the layer just above them. Korn Ferry's Workforce 2025 survey of 15,000 professionals across ten countries found that 44% of U.S. employees say their employer has already cut a layer of management, Gartner has predicted that roughly one in five organizations will use AI to flatten their structure by the end of 2026 (removing more than half of current middle-management roles where it happens), and two of the largest workforce reductions of the past year, at Amazon and Oracle, were both explicitly framed by the companies themselves as management-layer reductions rather than general headcount cuts....

The layer of the organization most exposed to AI-driven job cuts in 2026 is not the entry-level hire everyone has been writing about. It is the layer just above them. Korn Ferry’s Workforce 2…

22/08/2026

AI This Week by Working Intelligence — 16–22 August 2026

A weekly analytical brief on artificial intelligence worldwide — seven developments that mattered between 16 and 22 August 2026, what each one means, and where it leads next....

22/08/2026

Does 70% of Digital Transformation Really Fail? The Number Doesn’t Exist. The Problem Does.

No single credible study has ever found that 70 percent of digital transformations collapse outright. A 2011 peer-reviewed audit traced that specific claim to five widely cited sources and found none of them offered valid empirical evidence for it. That does not mean digital transformation is easy. Independent survey research, most of it from McKinsey and BCG, repeatedly puts full success rates somewhere between 16 and 30 percent, with overall success described by BCG as having stagnated around 30 to 35 percent over the past several years....

No single credible study has ever found that 70 percent of digital transformations collapse outright. A 2011 peer-reviewed audit traced that specific claim to five widely cited sources and found no…

22/08/2026

Payroll Company for a Small Business: What Fitness Meal Prep Reveals About the True Cost of Doing It Yourself

A payroll company for a small business typically charges a base fee plus a per employee add on, and for a five person team the entry tier plans from the major providers land in a fairly tight band of roughly $75 to $140 a month all in. That sounds like a new expense to cut. But once you add up the hours an owner actually spends running payroll by hand, plus the real odds of an IRS penalty for a late or wrong deposit, doing it yourself is usually the more expensive option, not the cheaper one....