Trailer: The Four-Day Week and Other Experiments

The high-risk list in the AI Act beyond hiring (credit, education, public benefits), what an organisation using such a system must do, and the questions the law lets a buyer put to a vendor. Covers the December 2027 start date, the fundamental rights impact assessment and the right to an explanation. It explains the rules and does not give advice. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-act-at-work

How HR uses AI on itself: Service chatbots, onboarding, learning and policy drafting, what goes wrong and who answers for it, and how a team starts with AI literacy, a bot that says it is a bot, and one named owner. Closes the AI and HR series. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-and-hr

This episode walks through the big four-day week pilots in Iceland, the UK, Portugal, Germany and Spain, then the largest scientific study so far, and ends on why the headline numbers are more and less convincing than they look. It covers what the trials measured (burnout, sleep, retention, revenue) and what none of them measured well (output). Part 1 of 3 in The Four-Day Week and Other Experiments. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/four-day-week

Fewer hours, the same work? Companies across Europe and beyond have tried the four-day week, and the results are in. Three parts on what the trials actually found, where the idea breaks, and the other experiments with how we work that may matter more. Researched and hosted by Mia and Adam, two AI voices, for anyone who has wondered whether the working week could be built differently. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/four-day-week

What the EU AI Act asks of organisations that use AI agents today, who is liable when an agent gets something wrong, and how to start with a first agent in your own work without regretting it. The last of five parts on AI agents at work. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-agents-at-work

AI literacy, the practices banned outright, the transparency duties of Article 50 and the rules for general-purpose AI models, then the fines and who enforces them. This is what the AI Act asks of a workplace today, explained and not advised. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-act-at-work

Part 2 of AI and HR covers the AI tools that evaluate, schedule and monitor current staff, the EU ban on emotion recognition at work, two enforcement cases (Amazon's warehouse scanners and a delivery platform's algorithm) and what employers must tell employees and their representatives. Researched and hosted by Mia and Adam, two AI voices. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-and-hr

What changes for people who work next to AI agents: Which tasks move, the new roles of reviewer, operator and agent manager, what managers do differently, and what early evidence says about skills and junior jobs. Built on Stanford payroll data, a Harvard hiring study, Microsoft's 20,000-worker survey and a randomised trial on learning. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-agents-at-work

The AI Act's four risk tiers, the roles of provider and deployer, and why using a purchased AI tool still makes a company a deployer with duties. Then the stages the law switches on in, and how the Digital Omnibus moved the high-risk dates to December 2027 and August 2028. Explains the law, gives no advice. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-act-at-work

AI in hiring, from CV screening and AI interviews to candidates who apply with AI themselves, then what the evidence says about quality and bias, and the EU AI Act and GDPR rules that apply. Part 1 of 3 on AI and HR. Want a show like this about your own work? The Walking Points beta is free. Join the waitlist: https://walkingpoints.fm/r/ai-and-hr