Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including the rise in job postings including generative AI terms and the productivity gains working using the technology see.
Apps for generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, are pictured on an Apple iPhone on Aug. 22, 2024, in Toronto, Canada. Workers report significant gains in productivity when they use generative AI at work.
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Artificial intelligence and generative AI continue to make inroads in the workplace, disrupting pay models and job requirements. At the same time, company leaders say they’re unprepared for the current work environment and are seeing substantial turnover among their ranks.
Here’s a look at some of the numbers making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
More than 2 months
The amount of time Teamlyders, LLC, and its affiliated businesses — franchisees of several Taco Bell restaurants in Michigan — knowingly allowed an area coach to sexually harass female employees, including underage workers, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit.
23%
The wage premiums jobs specifying AI skills paid, according to research from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford released Tuesday and published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
33%
How much more productive workers are in each hour that they use generative AI, according to research out of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
More than 40%
The share of leaders who reported turnover of more than half of their leadership team over the past year, per a report from LHH, a talent solutions provider and global business unit of the Adecco Group.
170%
The increase in job postings that mentioned generative AI terms from January 2024 to January 2025, per a report by Indeed’s Hiring Lab.