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The complete guide to Claude skills in total rewards
One of questions I get the most the biggest missteps companies make when they bring AI into the team. On stage I'd said one of the biggest is avoiding experimentation altogether, because the comp teams I see learning fastest are the ones allowed to try things.
People will experiment anyway, so the safe version is synthetic but realistic data in a sandbox, with clear guidelines. The skills guide we just published is built that way.
It has 16 skills covering 32 jobs, from pressure testing a pay number to scripting the video you send employees. They take the busy work out of pay reviews and benefits renewals, so you can spend your time on the calls only you can make.
Every skill comes with data from a made up company called Midpoint Ltd, with errors planted in it. You can watch Claude catch them before any real pay data goes near it. The skills won't make up a number or give tax advice, and a person signs off before anything reaches an employee. You can install all 16 in about two minutes.
The guide sits in the Comp AI Library with everything else we've made for free. If you try one, reply and tell me which.
COMING UP
Sunday’s episode is all about your relationship with IT.
For years HR was the function many people loved to complain about. Has IT taken over that title now that every AI tool needs its sign-off?
I sat down with Tobias Lipsky, an IT strategy consultant in Vienna, to find out how to get on its good side. His view is that most of the worries IT raises about AI aren't new. They're the questions it has asked about every tool that touches HR data, and the conversation goes better when you start with what you're trying to get done. Here's a clip (not legal advice).
ON THE RADAR
The ECB's chief economist says AI could weaken workers' pay bargaining power. Published 13 October. In a speech in Dublin, Philip Lane said AI replacing some types of workers may weaken their bargaining power, moderating wage growth and reducing labour's share of income. He also said 52% of workers now use AI at work, up from 26% in 2024, and that aggregate employment hasn't changed much yet. It's a hypothesis rather than a measured result, but a central bank has put pay in the same sentence as AI. Read → the speech
Job postings that ask for AI skills advertise pay about 70% higher in manufacturing. Published 30 September. A Federal Reserve Board note using Lightcast data found that manufacturing postings requiring AI skills carry wages around 70% higher than manufacturing postings overall, and that the gap in production roles has averaged roughly 30% since 2023. The note says the differential appeared before AI postings took off. Only about half of postings show a wage and the sample of AI postings is small, so I'd read it as a direction, not a price. Read → the Fed note
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