Client: Rippling
Format: Guide
Size: 534 KB
Language: English
Date: 17.08.2026
How HR Leaders Are Adopting AI
Ready or not, AI is transforming the HR function.
Gartner predicts that AI will handle up to half of HR and people teams’ work, and augment 100% of it by 2030. For overloaded teams tasked with everything from global recruitment to employee upskilling, AI holds tremendous promise — if it’s adopted responsibly. Implemented thoughtfully, AI can do more than make your existing processes incrementally faster. It can surface insights you couldn’t see before, handle tasks you don’t have time for, and free up your time to focus on the work that matters. But adoption alone doesn’t guarantee impact, especially as emerging regulations introduce more complexity into how AI can be used in the workplace.
The research that follows, based on a survey of over 1,000 global HR and people operations leaders, provides a view of where teams are in their AI journeys, their most pressing challenges, and how to best navigate the next era of adoption.
We’re on the journey with you. We just launched Rippling AI, where you get real time answers, instant reports, and genuine insights while honouring your important organisation permissions sets. We hope this report can help guide your year ahead in HR and people operations.
Gartner predicts that AI will handle up to half of HR and people teams’ work, and augment 100% of it by 2030. For overloaded teams tasked with everything from global recruitment to employee upskilling, AI holds tremendous promise — if it’s adopted responsibly. Implemented thoughtfully, AI can do more than make your existing processes incrementally faster. It can surface insights you couldn’t see before, handle tasks you don’t have time for, and free up your time to focus on the work that matters. But adoption alone doesn’t guarantee impact, especially as emerging regulations introduce more complexity into how AI can be used in the workplace.
The research that follows, based on a survey of over 1,000 global HR and people operations leaders, provides a view of where teams are in their AI journeys, their most pressing challenges, and how to best navigate the next era of adoption.
We’re on the journey with you. We just launched Rippling AI, where you get real time answers, instant reports, and genuine insights while honouring your important organisation permissions sets. We hope this report can help guide your year ahead in HR and people operations.
