Total Rewards Leader Board May 2026 Virtual Meeting - Rethinking Compensation in an AI-Enabled Org
This session is intentionally designed to include both Total Rewards Leaders and their senior Compensation leaders. Board members are strongly encouraged to invite the compensation leader(s) who directly support their annual comp planning and ongoing pay decisions to join the first half of the meeting.
As AI rapidly reshapes how organizations manage rewards, compensation teams are on the front lines, translating new tools and analytics into real decisions that affect employees, leaders, and the business. This meeting brings together strategic and operational perspectives for a grounded, peer‑level conversation.
Hour 1: How Compensation Teams Are Using AI Right Now
We’ll open with a focused discussion led by senior compensation leaders on how AI is being applied in practice across:
- Annual compensation planning and modeling
- Ongoing pay management and governance
- Decision‑support vs. decision‑making boundaries
- Early lessons, guardrails, and points of friction
This hour is designed to surface what is actually working, where caution remains warranted, and how comp teams are partnering with CHROs and executive leaders as expectations for speed, precision, and insight increase.
Hour 2: Executive Roundtable
i4cp's 2026 Priorities and Predictions report predicted companies would increasingly use AI-driven layoffs as a strategic lever. Drawing on recent developments in the news, we'll discuss layoffs, early retirement offerings, and benefit reductions that are occurring given the changes we're seeing in the workplace that seem to be driven by AI adoption.
Please review the following articles in advance to anchor the discussion:
- PTO, parental leave, pensions: Even the most prized benefits are on the chopping block
- Microsoft Targets About 7% of Its U.S. Workers With Buyout Offer
- Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
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