When Intuit began encouraging employees to use generative AI, CTO Alex Balazs said there were “pockets” of resistance in a place he hadn’t expected: the top ranks of the engineering department.

“Some of our best engineers fought it because they were lifelong coders, and they’re like, ‘I can write better code than this agent can,’” Balazs said. “It’s not a question of if you can write better code, it’s a question of, can it write code faster? And is the faster code that it wrote good enough to solve the problem? The answer is yes.” Balazs said he had to “continue to interact with them and get them over the hump.”

The key, he said, has been setting clear and transparent expectations around AI use, establishing his own credibility as someone who uses these tools, and hearing concerns through “listening posts.”

For more on the role HR stands to play in persuading employees to use AI, keep reading here.—PK

The country’s top official, charged with running the agency that protects the welfare of all US workers, is accused of violating worker rights.

Labor Sec. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s troubled tenure at the Francis Perkins Building is again under a microscope as she faces civil rights investigations into her leadership at the department and sexual misconduct allegations against her husband.

The complaints came from the Equal Employment Opportunity office and alleged that the secretary created a hostile workplace in which employees feared retaliation for opposing agency policy and that she retaliated against female employees who lodged complaints against her husband Shawn DeRemer for inappropriate “sexual touching,” according to MS Now. One complaint alleged Chavez-DeRemer directed staff to do her personal chores, including cleaning out her closet, the news outlet reported.

The news of the grievances come as the department of labor inspector general continues to investigate allegations of misconduct involving the secretary and members of her senior staff.

For more on the allegations against Chavez-DeRemer, keep reading here.—AD

Faye Tylee is the chief people and administrative officer at SiriusXM, leading the company’s enterprise people strategy including talent, rewards, culture, and employee experience. She’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how HR teams are building systems that support growth at scale. Before then, we had a chance to get her thoughts on the shift from reactive people strategy to intentional workforce design.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.

If you zoom out, what’s the biggest shift happening in the talent landscape right now that HR leaders can’t afford to ignore?

The biggest shift is how work itself is being redefined, which is driven by AI and a move toward a more skills-based, future-of-work model. As AI accelerates, jobs are no longer static. They’re being unbundled into tasks that are automated, augmented, or remain distinctly human, which is fundamentally changing how we think about roles, careers, and capability-building.

For more from our conversation with Tylee, keep reading here.—JK