The Death of the Three-Legged Stool: Rebuilding HR Architecture for the Age of Agentic AI

We’re not short of articles describing the future of TA or HR. This one is pretty good as it traces the incumbent model back to David Ulrich’s Three-Legged Stool of Centers of Expertise (CoEs), HR Business Partners (HRBPs), and Shared Services. Service centre evolution into Employee Relations offers most promise, but the underlying reality remains unstated - the HR function is set for dramatic reduction in size based on this projection. Maybe that’s no bad thing, but maybe no good thing either. Lots to think about.