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Taking stock of human capital in the age of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Case in point was the high turnover rate at road and highway maintenance company AVR Group, and the solutions enacted by its CTO Pierangelo Perdomi to remedy it. So smart working was introduced at AVR last year in the technology business unit with a different supplementary contract for different groups. Talents must be paid.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

GeekWire

Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more. Mikhail Parakhin. Matt Hulett.

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7 ways gen AI can create more work than it saves

CIO Business Intelligence

Workday announced new AI agents to transform HR and finance processes, and Google issued more AI-powered advertising and marketing tools. There are so many and each one has a learning curve and a certain period of time before it can actually start to bring value. Don’t hire data scientists just to write some emails.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information.

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Tech Moves: Zillow promotes execs; ZoomInfo CTO resigning; ESS CEO steps down

GeekWire

Michael Sherman, SVP of Zillow Rentals, and Cynthia Taylor, Zillow VP of agent software and advertising. More than three times as many households moved into a new rental than purchased a home in 2024,” the company said in announcing Sherman’s promotion. Michael Sherman is now SVP of Zillow Rentals.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

GeekWire

He led key businesses including Amazon’s third-party sales, Prime Video, Amazon Music and Amazon Advertising. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty.

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