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WILMINGTON – – November 04, 2026 -- Some 51% of U.S. HR professionals say their organizations are hiring externally for new AI-related positions, while 42% report redeploying existing staff, even though 92% of HR respondents believe their employees could be reskilled for those roles, according to a Careerminds white paper.

The study, The AI Redeployment Gap: What Companies Lose by Hiring over Reskilling, was conducted with Censuswide. It surveyed 1,142 U.S. HR professionals (595) and people managers (547) at organizations with 500 or more employees. Fieldwork ran May 15–26, 2026.

Managers Show the Same Gap Between Belief and Hiring Practice

Among people managers, 88% say staff could be reskilled for AI roles. Yet 47% report external hiring for these positions, against 42% who report redeployment.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Findem has launched Findem Studio, a suite of AI agents designed to deliver finished, evidence-backed people-analytics work rather than raw data or search results. The platform is now available for free trial at studio.findem.ai/solutions.

Studio agents produce succession plans, market maps and benchmarks with supporting evidence

Findem Studio combines the company's proprietary people intelligence with AI agents built on methodologies from named practitioners. Outputs include succession plans, leadership benchmarks, hiring briefs, skills gap analyses, org charts and CHRO and VP of Talent Acquisition benchmarks. Rather than returning a candidate list for a succession plan, for example, an agent evaluates potential successors against expert-defined criteria and produces a plan with documented rationale that teams can review, challenge and refine before acting.