The Josh Bersin Company recognizes HiBob for establishing a human-centered blueprint for workforce transformation, responsible AI adoption, and long-term organizational performance.
HiBob, the company behind Bob, the people platform helping organizations adapt and thrive in the age of AI, today announces it has received a 2026 HR Pacesetter Award for AI Transformation from The Josh Bersin Company. This recognition positions HiBob as a leader in AI-era workforce transformation, as the market shifts from isolated AI experiments to connected platforms that turn workforce data into action.
While legacy platforms focus on administration and control, HiBob’s award-winning three-layer operating model transforms fragmented people and operational data into the intelligence leaders need to shape the future of work. By embedding AI into workflows, leadership, and decision-making, HiBob has created a practical model for achieving sustainable organizational intelligence.
“HiBob is recognized as a 2026 HR Pacesetter Award winner for pioneering an operating model that aligns people, processes, and technology to ‘do more with more,’” said The Josh Bersin Company team. “By evolving AI from isolated experimentation into a strategic work partner, HiBob has engineered a scalable, people-first infrastructure that redefines how leaders, managers, and employees drive business impact.”
The team added: “This three-layer operating model transforms AI from a passive co-pilot into a foundational engine for daily workflows and executive decision-making. Through this HR-connected architecture, HiBob demonstrates how a human-centered AI strategy serves as the essential infrastructure for sustainable adoption, responsible innovation, and long-term market dominance.”
Led by the AI Mind Team, this model sets the standard for operationalizing AI at scale.
Key milestones include:
- Approximately 95% of employees using AI weekly
- More than 70 AI Leaders enabled across the company
- Over 300 AI proof-of-concept initiatives submitted
- More than 150 AI agents embedded into departmental workflows
- Over 1,800 participants in AI workshops and learning programs
- Company-wide AI usage growth of 111%
- More than 60 unique AI-related skills developed in the past year
“AI transformation is often viewed as a technology challenge,” said Ronni Zehavi, CEO and Co-founder of HiBob. “At HiBob, we prove it is a human-centered organizational challenge. By building an operating system for the AI era, we are not replacing the human element. We are elevating it and creating the strongest partnership between human creativity and AI-driven scale.”
Zehavi added: “Organizations today need more than automation. They need intelligence, orchestration, and the ability to connect people strategy directly to business execution. That means bringing people, payroll, performance, and planning together so leaders can understand what is happening across the workforce and act with confidence.”
As organizations move from AI experimentation to workforce transformation, HiBob is setting the standard with a proven model that turns AI adoption into organizational intelligence.
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