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As more of its work is outsourced to AI, there's "a significant risk" HR could lose its standalone strategic status and instead become "an operational function that uses technology to execute on the strategies of others", an advisor warns.

"I'm not sure all HR leaders out there have fully recognised that that is actually a potential risk for us," Gartner HR practice advisory director Jonathan Tabah tells HR Daily.

Despite HR's strategic value, business leaders still see it as "a fairly operational function", Tabah says.

"If we take ourselves out of the shoes of HR leaders, and step into the shoes of the COO and a CIO, or a CFO, looking for efficiencies and saying, 'Well, gosh, at least half, if not two-thirds of what HR does is operational', where does that thought process go?"

Some executives are not only asking, "How much of HR can just be handed over to technology?" but also, "How much smaller can I make that function?", he says...