According to McKinsey, 88 percent of organizations now use AI in at least one business function. But employee engagement remains stubbornly low globally, with Gallup reporting that only 21 percent of workers feel engaged at work. It’s clear that progress on AI deployment and progress on employee experience are not moving together. The gap is a design failure, not a technology one. Companies are adding AI to the work they already do, or on top of siloed systems, instead of asking how that work should be fundamentally restructured. HR is the function best positioned to answer that question. But only if