When automation becomes available, the fastest path to a headline saving is to cut roles. The research suggests it is also the fastest path to social-licence loss — 55% of leaders who made AI-related redundancies later believed they made the wrong decision.
HI Accreditation rewards organisations that decompose and redesign work before pursuing redundancy, and that relocate human value into higher-judgement work.
It’s a guarantee of no blind displacement — not a promise that no role will ever change.