Ryan Breslow, the CEO of US financial services company Bolt Financial, is in the news after culling his entire HR team because it was 'creating problems that didn't exist.' He claims: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go.'His comments have sparked fresh debate about the purpose of HR teams and whether problems ‘disappear’ - or just get swept under the rug.Should Breslow's comments be approached with caution - and are there right and wrong ways to ‘do’ HR?<a href="https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15834297/Bolt-CEO-fires-entire-HR-team-created-problems.html">https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15834297/Bolt-CEO-fires-entire-HR-team-created-problems.html</a>

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Do HR teams 'create problems that don't exist'?

Many people will be nodding thinking "Good riddance, HR is useless." However, Gartner published research last week saying AI will create more jobs than it eliminates from 2028, but those jobs don't exist yet. Someone has to map the skills gap, redesign the roles, and move actual humans from column A to column B without breaking employment law. Bolt just fired the team that would actually do that. So, what's the plan if that AI-based restructure to unlock more profit for Bolt glimmers on the horizon? A ChatGPT subscription, an uploaded employment law PDF and a Slack channel?

Colette Mason focuses on the AI that neither the doomers nor boosters talk about. She had her first tech job at 14, then supported mission-critical IT systems for investment banks, the Metropolitan Police, London Underground, and UK government agencies. Systems where failure had consequences. That background shapes how she thinks about AI now. Not as a product to sell, but as a tool under scrutiny, in a public conversation too often dominated by people who've never built anything. She understands the tech, the commercial incentives, and the human and environmental cost when all three collide. Colette runs her Clever Clogs AI consultancy, covering AI industry news through her writing and toolkits. Her focus: what's actually happening vs what's being sold, hyped, and battled with, plus who pays the price when those three converge. Author of Ditch Rework Build Teamwork: 10 AI Principles to Fix the Friction and Build a Trusted AI Assistant Available for commentary on: AI hype vs delivery · who benefits when AI governance fails · why enterprise discipline matters in the AI era · the human cost of badly designed AI systems · ethics that go beyond compliance theatre

Do HR teams 'create problems that don't exist'?

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