Hiring, Firing & Reskilling with Agents
Joak Van der Poort said Remote pushed AI early, requiring every employee to complete an AI course and reporting engineering productivity rose about 500% between mid-last year and this year. He argued agents can automate HR and payroll bureaucracy, but compliance answers need grounding, references, human escalation, and iterative guardrails; AI hiring may scale an already flawed, impersonal process.
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