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HR urged to help • The Register

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March 4, 2026
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If you buy AI, employees will come and take a look, but they won’t necessarily change the way they work. For that, you may have to get human resources involved.

IT consultancy Gartner says as much in its recent report “Guide Managers to Effectively Integrate AI Into Employees’ Work.”

The enterprise whisperer says that its July 2025 survey of nearly 3,000 employees showed that 46 percent of managers are experimenting with AI to improve their work, compared to just 26 percent of employees.

A separate survey conducted at the same time found that just 14 percent of managers said that they didn’t face any challenges encouraging their teams to use AI. AI tools, in other words, don’t sell themselves (except perhaps in software development).

From this, Carmen von Rohr, senior principal in Gartner’s HR practice, concludes that chief human resource officers have relied too much on employees to integrate AI tools into their jobs. To improve AI adoption, CHROs are advised to focus on supporting managers to undertake the organizational change necessary to meet the expectations of senior leadership.

More than any prior technology, Gartner argues, AI implementation requires change management.

In other words, HR leaders need to focus on communication and sensitivity to employee needs. If managers rush to implement business transformation plans, they risk creating “operational and emotional resistance” among employees. Just as asking IT professionals to train their overseas replacements risks rebellion, urging employees to embrace AI coworking can create pushback, especially if accompanied by layoffs.

Given that 46 percent of US voters believe AI will hurt the economy, according to a recent Data for Progress poll, some forethought seems advisable.

Gartner would have CHROs help managers with their AI integration efforts by looking at the needs and expectations of different teams in terms of AI training and support. HR leaders should also prepare managers for potential emotional resistance from employees and for communicating effectively with senior leaders who may not have realistic expectations.

In addition, the consultancy sees a role for HR leaders in clarifying how potential AI-related productivity gains should be allocated – a return on investment that the majority of CEOs still haven’t seen.

That recommendation follows from a July 2025 Gartner survey of 114 HR leaders that found a mere 7 percent of organizations offer guidance about how one should use time savings derived from AI tools.

And before that question can even be answered, companies need to settle internal disagreements about how projected time saved should be allocated. Based on the survey, 55 percent of HR leaders preferred to see saved time applied to projects outside of core job roles, compared to just 28 percent of managers.

Debating how AI’s supposed productivity bounty will be spent seems premature, however, when organizations are still struggling to sell their workers on AI. ®

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US Dems say Iran troop deployment ‘more likely’ ahead of war powers vote | Donald Trump News

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March 4, 2026
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Washington, DC – The United States Senate is expected to hold an initial vote on a resolution to rein in US President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, with top Democrat Chuck Schumer saying he fears “now more than ever” that the administration is planning to deploy boots on the ground.
The procedural vote expected on Wednesday represents the first time US lawmakers will be put on the record on their position towards the war, which the US and Israel began on Saturday, and which has since seen retaliation from Iran spread across the Middle East.
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The vote will determine whether the chamber will move forward with further debate on the resolution and a final vote, or if any effort to assert congressional authority over the Trump administration’s military actions will be swiftly scuttled. A separate measure is expected to face an initial vote in the US House of Representatives tomorrow.
Speaking from the Senate floor, US Democrats condemned what they described as shifting justifications for the war and why the US needed to immediately attack Iran.
The top Democrat in the chamber, Schumer, portrayed Trump as a president willing to swiftly change his narrative, unmoored by evidence or his past positions.
“Whatever pops into his head, he says immediately. He picks one plan one day, then he picks the total opposite the next. He doesn’t think it through, he doesn’t check the facts,” he said.
“He is surrounded by ‘yes’ men; this is dangerous,” Schumer said, adding that recent briefings from the administration had provided “zero clarity” on its end goals and timeline.
Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said that the operation had just begun, with more US assets being sent to the region.
Schumer said the statement showed “it is clear they are widening the war … and I fear now more than ever that we are going to put boots on the ground, and that’s precisely what the American people fear.”
Comparison to 2003 invasion of Iraq
For his part, Democrat Dick Durbin pointed to the array of rationales the Trump administration has given for launching the war, while presenting scant concrete evidence supporting the various claims.
Trump has suggested that Iran was seeking to rebuild its nuclear programme, which he has said was “obliterated” in strikes last year; he has suggested that Iran was seeking to develop a long-range missile to strike the US; his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, told reporters that close US-ally Israel was planning to attack Iran, which would likely lead to retribution against US assets in the region; Trump has said Iran was the one planning an imminent attack on Israel.
Most enduringly across the messaging, the Trump administration has sought to frame the totality of Iran’s actions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 as representing an immediate threat.
Many US constitutional scholars have long argued that presidential powers, under Article Two of the US Constitution, are constrained to using the military for self-defence in responding to immediate threats to the country, beyond which congressional approval is needed.
Under international law, the concept of “imminence” is also important in determining whether an attack on a sovereign country is legal.
“Let me tell you my experience having been here on the vote to go to war in Iraq, it is far easier to get into a war than it is to get out of a war,” Durbin said. “We knew at the time that there was a possibility that a larger war would emerge than just a simple invasion, and it did – for nine years.”
Republicans defend Trump
Wednesday’s vote is the beginning of an uphill battle for supporters of the war powers resolution.
Republicans hold a slim majority in both the Senate and the US House of Representatives, and the party has largely coalesced around Trump’s message, even as influential members of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement have increasingly voiced dismay.
Democrats and independents that caucus with the party hold 47 seats in the Senate, compared to 53 held by Republicans. At least one Democrat, John Fetterman, has said he will oppose the resolution, while one Republican, Rand Paul, is co-sponsoring it.
That means all remaining Democrats and four Republicans would need to vote in support of constraining Trump’s powers. The math is equally challenging in the House, where Democrats hold 214 seats to Republicans’ 218.
Speaking from the Senate floor, Republican John Barrasso said: “Democrats would rather obstruct President Trump than obliterate Iran’s national nuclear programme”.
“Trump communicated our objectives within hours of the first strike: destroy Iran’s missile industry, and that includes their missiles, their launchers and the production capacity missiles they were stockpiling, destroy Iran’s navy, destroy Iran’s terrorist proxy network, stop Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon,” he said.
“President Trump absolutely acted within his Article Two ..s constitutional powers to achieve these goals,” he said.
Why does it matter?
Even if supporters of the war powers vote manage to reach majority support in both the House and Senate, the resolution would still be vetoed by Trump.
Lawmakers would then need a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override Trump’s veto, a much higher barrier to clear.
Still, advocates have long argued that requiring war powers votes forces lawmakers to engage on the subject and gives constituents the ability to message their elected officials about the war, with early polls showing dismal approval of Trump’s strikes.
“Votes and debates on the Iran War Powers Resolution are essential because they force accountability,” said Hassan El-Tayyab, the legislative director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Washington, DC based nonprofit.
“By taking the measure up, members of Congress put themselves on record, shine a light on the administration’s actions, and compel necessary concessions,” he told Al Jazeera.
El-Tayyab said the pending vote has already increased pressure on the administration to provide more information to Congress, pointing to a handful of Republicans who have expressed scepticism.
“This proves that the debate is not abstract politics,” El-Tayyab said. “It’s our government exercising its war powers with transparency and vigilance.”

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FCC aims to crack down on offshore call centers, illegal robocalls

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March 4, 2026
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FIRST ON FOX— The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on a proposal to improve customer service at call centers by encouraging onshoring and strengthening accountability for certain U.S. businesses, Chairman Brendan Carr announced on Wednesday.
The FCC will vote on reforms that can encourage businesses to bring call center jobs back to the U.S. as Carr believes that “Americans get frustrated when they call a U.S. business and end up connecting with a call center located abroad.”
The FCC will also explore ways to improve customer service at existing call centers, including a proposal to require call takers to be proficient in American Standard English, and will address illegal robocalls that originate abroad by seeking comment on the targeted use of tariffs or bonds.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is attempting to make life less frustrating for Americans. (Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit)
“Today, nearly 70 percent of U.S. businesses outsource at least one department, including customer service and call center operations to locations abroad. As a result, too many Americans have struggled to resolve an issue with a representative due to cultural and language barriers,” Carr told Fox News Digital.
“Overseas customer service centers also raise concerns about protecting consumers’ personal information. Foreign call centers have also contributed to the rampant influx of overseas scam calls, training staff that later use those skills to defraud consumers,” Carr continued. “Our proposal would require disclosure when calls are routed overseas, give consumers the option to switch to a U.S.-based representative, and add stronger safeguards for personal data—all while improving service and creating new economic opportunities here at home. To further discourage illegal robocalls from abroad, the item also seeks comment on the use of targeted tariffs or bonds.”
Many corporations shifted their customer service and call center operations from America to a range of foreign countries within the past few decades – with nearly 70 percent of U.S. companies outsourcing at least one department, according to the FCC.
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Brendan Carr, commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee oversight hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Commission believes the practice takes jobs away from communities across the country and causes customer service issues for Americans in the process. Carr also believes the overreliance on foreign call centers is a risk to privacy, data protection, and even national security.
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking will seek comment on ways to encourage and facilitate the onshoring of call centers, steps the FCC can take to improve the customer service and security of communications between an American and any call center that remains abroad and how to address illegal robocall scams that originate inside foreign call centers.
The announcement is the latest attempt by Carr to make life less frustrating for Americans.
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was appointed by President Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times via AP)
Last month, the FCC announced it would seek public comments on the ongoing shift of live sports from broadcast channels to streaming services. The comment period runs through March 27 and replies to the comments are due April 13. The move comes as the NFL, NBA, MLB and other major sports have moved many games from broadcast and cable television to streaming services.
“From a consumer perspective, they were used to, for a long time, you sit down, you flip on the TV and you find your favorite sports game right there,” Carr told Fox News Digital at the time. “It was either free, or it was already part of the TV package that you already purchased. In the last couple of years, we’ve seen a movement of a significant number of games behind paywalls. I think that’s been really frustrating for so many consumers.”
Carr was appointed by President Donald Trump.
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Australia politics live: stranded Australians return from Middle East; new inquiry into racism towards Indigenous Australians | Australia news

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March 4, 2026
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Krishani Dhanji
Good morning, Krishani Dhanji here with you this morning, thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started.
It’s going to be another busy day in Parliament House today, Penny Wong is doing the media rounds this morning as the first flight from Dubai to Australia returns and another three flights are scheduled for today.
And do you taste maple syrup in the air? Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister is in Canberra today. He’s due to deliver a speech to parliament and host a press conference with Anthony Albanese.
We’ll bring you all this and much more, as it happens. Let’s get straight into it!
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More from AAP on the people arriving back from the Middle East last night.
Mining executive Troy Barker landed in Dubai only for a day and was at a popular horse race on Saturday, where the Emirati ruler was also in attendance, when he saw drones and missiles across the city’s skyline.
“I saw a couple of missiles but I’ve worked in Africa for 20 years so I’ve seen many things,” he said.
He praised communications from Emirates airlines and the authorities on the ground, saying he was lucky to be home.
The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, earlier said she was pleased the first plane carrying Australians from Dubai to Sydney was on its way, as more than 115,000 Australians remain stranded in the region.
“We know this is a very difficult time. We are conscious of how distressed many people are,” she told reporters in Canberra.
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New inquiry into racism towards Indigenous Australians announced
The federal minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has announced there will be a parliamentary inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at First Nations people.
McCarthy said it comes at an important time, after the alleged terror attack at Perth’s Invasion Day rally on 26 January, and the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne last year by white supremacists.
She said it also coincided with a reported increase in racism against First Nations Australians, especially online.
The inquiry, conducted by the joint standing committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, is currently accepting submissions until 1 May, with findings to be tabled by 15 September.
McCarthy said:

First Nations people are feeling scared and angry in the wake of the alleged terrorist attack in Boorloo, Perth, and last year’s attack on Camp Sovereignty.

I know this has been a difficult time for families and communities. This inquiry ensures they can have their say and their experiences will be heard by the parliament.

I regularly hear from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that they are facing increasing hate and racism, especially online. We must stand up against racism in all its forms.

The minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP
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Stranded Australians return from Middle East
Hugs and tears from anxious family members greeted tired and weary Australian evacuees who managed to get on the first flight out from Dubai, Australia Associated Press reports.
Landing in Sydney last night, an emotional Iman Krayem was surrounded by her son, Youssef, and husband, Nazih.
She was stuck in the United Arab Emirates for several nights, on her way to see her sick father in Lebanon, when Iranian missiles struck the gilded city in response to a barrage of US and Israeli attacks.
“I was crying non-stop,” she told AAP minutes after clearing customs. “It was so stressful, I didn’t have my luggage, I had no clothes but I am happy to be back home now.”
Among the more than 200 passengers who arrived were a group of high school students travelling to Istanbul for a robotics competition.
Charity worker Hawra Khalil was in Lebanon on a humanitarian trip feeding war-torn children in several cities.
Heeding the Australian government’s travel warning, Khalil managed to catch a flight to Dubai where she was grounded with a colleague of hers.
She said being caught in a conflict zone where she felt buildings shake for a few days in the relative comfort of the Gulf monarchy drove home how other citizens in Arab countries have been faring in recent years.
“I just got a glimpse of it in Dubai and I had seen what people in Lebanon go through on a daily basis tenfold,” she said.
“It is scary, you feel threatened but I have it so much easier because what I witnessed is innocent families and innocent children starving and in poverty.”
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Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Krishani Dhanji will pick up the slack.
Weary Australians trapped by the war in the Middle East arrived back to an emotional welcome at Sydney airport last night. More details coming up.
The Indigenous affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, has announced there will be a parliamentary inquiry into racism, hate and violence directed at First Nations people. It follows the Invasion Day rally attack in Perth and the attack on Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne last year by white supremacists. More details coming up.
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Scepticism over Starmer as Labour MPs meet to discuss threat from Greens | News UK Video News

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March 4, 2026
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Labour chair Anna Turley has met MPs to discuss the threat from the Greens after their party’s Gorton and Denton by-election drubbing.
The Labour meeting on Wednesday afternoon follows long-held concerns among the party’s left that Number 10 has ignored its progressive voter base by trying to “out Reform Reform”.

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One MP present at the meeting held by the party chair said there was “a keenness to listen to experiences from people around the country who’d faced challenges from the Greens in the past”.
However, others were sceptical about whether the government would take their concerns on board and what, if anything, could be done to turn things around while Sir Keir Starmer was still in charge.

The result on Thursday saw Labour lose a constituency it has controlled since the 1930s, coming third behind the Greens and Reform UK.
There was more bad news this week as a national YouGov opinion poll showed the Greens had now leapfrogged Labour into second place behind Reform UK.

The Labour Party is now said to be reassessing its voter coalition, as it gears up for potentially catastrophic local elections in May.
One MP at Wednesday’s meeting said several colleagues raised the need to be more positive when campaigning, saying both Labour and the Greens “went low” and that Labour “needs to become the party of hope again”.

Some MPs believe Labour focused too much of the campaign attacking the Greens on issues like legalising drugs rather than making a positive case for what the party has achieved so far.

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However others have warned that winning back progressive voters doesn’t mean going soft on the Greens.
One MP told Sky News: “We’ve got to hold the Greens to account for their batsh*t views on defence that would risk Britain’s security, but also be confident that we are a progressive party. There’s a balance to be struck, and that’s exactly where the public’s at.”
While there was said to be a big turnout at the meeting, none of the left-wing socialist campaign group (SCG) faction were expected to attend. They felt it would be a “waste of time”, a source told Sky News.
A separate source on the left said MPs had been warning the leadership about the threat from the Greens for years and nothing short of a leadership change would fix that now.
However after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham was blocked from standing in the seat, they conceded there was no obvious choice as a replacement leader.
While Angela Rayner is often tipped to be the left-wing candidate, many within the left believe she is too tainted by her tax scandal and association with the Starmer government, as Sky News has previously reported.
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on following the by-election defeat.
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He has also promised a better culture of engagement with backbenchers, telling them in a letter that Number 10 would host more policy roundtables and drop ins for Labour MPs to discuss policy issues.

‘They have smashed Labour, they have smashed Reform. It is an absolute earthquake,’ says Sky’s Beth Rigby.

One MP said: “The party that listens is usually the one that wins.”
However other backbenchers told Sky News they were sceptical of the prime minister’s promise.
One said that while Number 10 claimed to want loyalty “what they actually want is obedience”.
There has been a big push behind the scenes for action to address the expense of Plan 2 Student Loans, which some MPs hope could win back younger voters from the Greens. However, the Treasury is said to be resistant to the idea – meaning a fresh fight could be on the horizon.
Hannah Spencer’s victory in Gorton and Denton, has made her the fifth Green Party MP in the House of Commons – the highest number of seats the party has ever had.
The plumber and plasterer beat Reform UK into second place, with a majority of 4,402.
The Labour Party, which had previously held the seat at the last general election, came third.

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