If it’s been a decade or more since you sat in on an anatomy class, you may not remember much about connective tissue. It functions as the glue that connects muscles to bones and keeps organs in the right spot.

Some heavy lifting for a part of the body that doesn’t get enough recognition.

Paulo Pisano, CHRO at Booking Holdings and CPO at its flagship property, Booking.com, knows that connective tissue holds a great power, albeit in a much different context: the workplace. It can bring different people and businesses together and keep company values and identity in the right spot.

That’s why since 2020, when he joined booking.com as CPO, and later as the conglomerate’s top HR exec, Pisano says he has worked to build connective tissue at the digital travel and tourism company.

For more on how Pisano creates moments of connection for employees, keep reading here.—AD

As AI infiltrates most aspects of life and work, many remain hesitant to use the emerging technology or are concerned it may replace them. Employers, meanwhile, are navigating how to deploy AI while continuing to engage employees.

At Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit this week, executives from Workday, Microsoft, and Guild shared their approach to AI education, and how to remain authentic in an AI agent world.

AI is as complex as any business function, so companies should create systems tailored to their unique goals and employees, according to Katy George, CVP of workforce transformation at Microsoft. “AI can drive a whole variety of different performance outcomes. And what’s really critical is that the business leaders, not the tech folks…identify what matters, and then drive the connection of AI into their business processes.”

For more on how executives are teaching employees to use AI, keep reading here.—KP

Avast! University employees are getting ambushed by pirate attacks, and not the kind that occur while sailing the seven seas.

Earlier this month, Microsoft Threat Intelligence published research on a scam campaign targeting US university employees, where threat actors successfully divert salary payments from employee accounts to their own. The scheme has been dubbed a “payroll pirate” attack by the broader industry.

For more on how the scam works, and how to defend against it, keep reading on IT Brew.—BM

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