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A new KPMG survey of CEOs at major U.S. corporations found that 89% expect to increase overall headcount over the next three years, even as their companies adopt artificial intelligence. The survey suggests executives are treating AI more as a tool to integrate into existing workflows than as a straightforward way to cut staff costs.
A contributor column advises business owners to list the ten recurring tasks a proposed hire would actually perform and sort them into judgment, relationship, repetition and coordination categories before approving a new position. The piece argues that hiring is often a default response to growth, even when the real bottleneck is a broken workflow rather than a lack of people. It cites Census Bureau data showing only about 17-20% of businesses use AI, with Sales, Strategy and IT as top adopting functions where automation could resolve repetitive work.