CIOs, CHROs must work together to retain AI talent
Dive Brief
C-suite leaders need to shape comprehensive strategies that build confidence among employees or risk losing them to competitors, a Gartner study found.
Published May 18, 2026
Dive Brief:
- Half of enterprises that lack a comprehensive AI people strategy will lose their top AI talent to competitors by 2027, a Gartner study published last week found. Gartner surveyed more than 12,000 enterprise employees and managers during the first quarter of the year about AI’s impact on work and their sentiments about workforce changes because of the technology.
- AI productivity will not reach all levels of the enterprise without a strong strategy, the report found. Nearly three-quarters of highly productive AI users were managers or executives. And while 88% of employees surveyed said they have enterprise AI access, they also turn to shadow AI to complete work-related tasks.
- Leaders should stop seeing AI use as an automatic productivity win, the...
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