Employee and Customer Experience
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Today's Highlights

- AI is shifting from advisory roles to "agentic processing," where it executes operational tasks, handles exceptions, and escalates to humans only when necessary.
- Studies reveal AI adoption is undermining employee engagement by increasing loneliness, reducing on-the-job learning, and creating emotional fatigue and detachment.
- Companies face a benefits engagement crisis, as systems designed for "everyone" are underutilized by male workers, leading to disengagement and high turnover costs.
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