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Rita points to one customer that cut compliance reporting from four hours to 20 minutes. Another reduced contentcreation time by 98 % and tripled engagement. A third runs more than 550 automated learning campaigns a night.“ That number genuinely surprised me,” she says.“ Not the scale itself, but what it shows. All of that used to be someone’ s manual work.” At Workday’ s own 20,000-person operation, course completion rose 25 % and the time to refresh material fell 70 %. Samsung has pushed the logic further than anyone. It has trained almost 120,000 people who are not even its own employees, but staff at nearly 1,300 supplier firms, through a‘ win-win’ academy that runs everything from chip processes to AI. Its chairman, Lee Jae-yong, calls it survival, not charity.“ Sharing together and growing together,” Lee has said,“ is the path toward becoming the world’ s best.” In an AI supply chain, a company is only as skilled as the weakest firm it leans on. No training scheme guarantees the person retrained lands somewhere better. But the divide of the next decade is coming into focus, and it is not between the companies that use AI and those that do not. It is between the ones that treat their people as capital to write down and the ones that treat them as capability to build. The first will save money for a while. The second are assembling the one moat AI cannot copy, a workforce that keeps learning as fast as the machines change the work.
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