🔗 LinkedIn пост · Rick Weijers · Helping HR Leaders succeed in Digital HR, AI and Organisational Transformation · 2026-05-26 · 👍 12 · 💬 0 · 🔁 2
⛰️ AI agents are moving into your employee journey fast. Are you ready?
It is moving into the daily systems where work already happens. That may be the most important signal over the last two weeks.
1️⃣ Workday expanded Sana beyond HR into IT service management and travel. 2️⃣ Workday also made its Sana Self-Service Agent available inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, so employees and managers can handle HR and finance tasks without moving back into a traditional HR portal. 3️⃣ Paychex launched WISE as an AI-powered intelligence layer across HCM workflows for SMBs. 4️⃣ Recruiting leaders are also moving from experimentation to operating plans, with 68% of surveyed TA leaders expecting agentic AI to become core to hiring within 12 months.
Is your organisation ready for this? Because once AI agents start working across HR, IT, finance, travel, recruiting, performance, and workforce planning, you can no longer see AI as a tool.
It becomes part of the employee journey and with that, the control points.
➡️ An onboarding agent may need HR data, IT access rules, manager input, compliance checks, payroll timing, and local employment context. ➡️ A travel agent may connect policy, budget approval, expense rules, tax implications, and employee experience. ➡️ A recruiting agent may support screening, scheduling, communication, verification, and candidate trust. ➡️ A performance-review assistant may reduce writing time, but still needs good evidence, manager judgment, and bias…