Function cockpit

Human Resources

Agents run the employee lifecycle. Humans make employment decisions.

Autonomy0% / 78%

Phase: Phase 3 — Functional orchestration

Run hire-to-retire as one coordinated work graph: requisition administration, scheduling, onboarding, policy service and records are agent work; selection, compensation, performance and termination remain human.

Trust score

Touchless

Human review

Override rate

Capacity released

25-40% released HR-service capacity, reinvested in planning and employee relations

Accountable human

Chief Human Resources Officer

CoS agent: HR Chief of Staff

Gates, kill switches, and the decision ledger

Governance

Autonomy is only defensible if the brakes are documented

Every gate below names a threshold, an approver, and a clock. Everything the function has decided recently sits in the ledger underneath, whether a person or an agent made the call.

Active gates

Pending decisions

Approved this cycle

Contained or reversed

Gate register

The conditions under which an agent must stop and ask.

Gate	Trigger threshold	Approver	SLA	Waivable
Candidate rejection on substantive assessment Approval gate	Any rejection based on capability judgment rather than administrative criteria	Hiring manager	2 business days	Hard stop
Offer terms and compensation Approval gate	Any offer, compensation change or exception to the published band	HR business partner and compensation lead	2 business days	Hard stop
Performance or disciplinary action Approval gate	Any rating, performance plan, disciplinary step or termination	Manager and HR business partner	3 business days	Hard stop
Adverse-impact testing Oversight	Monthly outcome testing across all agent-supported selection processes	CHRO and employment counsel	Monthly	Hard stop

Decision ledger

Immutable record of what was decided, by whom, and how long it took.

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Escalation
Sourcing criterion blocked as proxy risk
ContainedHigh
Fairness Monitor blocked a sourcing filter using continuous-employment history, which correlated with a protected characteristic in the candidate pool. Criterion removed and the search rerun.
Fairness Monitor · 9d 7h ago
Escalation
Residual access after departure
ContainedMedium
Offboarding Agent detected two active application accounts 26 hours after a departure. Access revoked through IT identity and an evidence record opened.
Offboarding Agent · 9d 8h ago
Approval gate
Compensation exception awaiting decision
PendingHigh
An offer 12% above the published band was modeled with internal-equity comparison and market evidence. Held for HR business partner and compensation lead.
Compensation lead · 9d 10h ago
Requester can escalate only at this materiality
Notification
Onboarding cohort completed autonomously
Auto-executedLow
Onboarding Agent coordinated 42 new joiners across HR, IT, Finance and Administration with all day-one tasks confirmed complete before start.
Onboarding Agent · 9d 13h ago

Kill switches

Named, tested, and reachable in one click by the accountable human.

Protected-characteristic inference detected in any model output
Unexplained outcome disparity across a candidate or employee cohort
Confidential employee data exposed outside its access boundary
Inability to provide a human appeal path
Agent action taken on a consequential employment decision

Human accountability

Cannot be delegated to an agent at any autonomy level.

Hiring selection and offer terms
Performance ratings and promotion decisions
Compensation exceptions and pay equity judgment
Discipline, termination and grievance handling
Accommodation decisions and workforce restructuring

Signs for this function

Chief Human Resources Officer