While many employees are worried that AI will take their jobs, not all businesses see it in cost-cutting terms.

Some, like Cisco, ranked fifth on Fortune ’s 100 Best Companies to Work For – Europe list , are instead trying to use the technology to unlock employee potential—and give them back their time.

“If you look at this only through the lens of how do we increase productivity of a company… it’s shortsighted,” says Kelly Jones, chief people officer at Cisco. “If you can give 5% of their time back to a more than 86,000-person enterprise, what they can do with that time to drive better outcomes for our customers is exponential.”

Kelly Jones, chief people officer, Cisco. Cisco

Using AI to save employee time

For the HR team at Cisco, one of the basic ways to save employees’ time

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