A recent study suggests that rather than asking how to get people to use AI, employers should ask how groups experience AI differently and tailor their approaches.
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The EEOC's move toward the National Enforcement Plan comes with its own share of not only changes, but new risks, not just in DEI.
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Peter Miscovich, global future of work leader at JLL, says mixed hiring data reflects a deliberate growth strategy at AI-mature organizations.
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The rules are part of a major independent dispute resolution system reboot.
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Cuts would follow a reduction of about 21,000 employees in fiscal 2026 and come as Oracle’s infrastructure spending reaches tens of billions.
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July payrolls fell, but hiring plans jumped 47%. See what Challenger, BLS and ManpowerGroup data reveal about how companies are hiring now.
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AI is changing work rapidly, but to get your team future ready, HR leaders have to prepare their workers and orgs in the right way.
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Denise Nichols, Fortitude Re’s people officer, offers HR leaders a case study in using AI to redesign TA without automating the final call.
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Every full-time worker in the United States would be guaranteed at least two weeks of paid vacation under a bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
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A workplace safety survey by Envoy reveals that three-quarters of workers surveyed have missed time due to issues such as weather or violence.
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Two years into HubSpot’s AI-first journey, adoption and fluency were the easy part. Accountability and the "missing middle" are tougher.
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Two NAIC working groups will hear presentations on how insurers cover products like Nicorette and Narcan.
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Mark Zuckerberg's new AI manifesto argues automation won't outpace human capability, and outlines what that means for HR leaders.
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With money becoming a strategic talent tool that much of HR is still overlooking, the intersection of fintech and HR has become critical.
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After 35 years with First Horizon Bank, Tanya Hart is uniquely positioned to help her function meet both the needs of frontline workers and the C-suite.
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Visa cut 2,600 jobs (7% of staff) on July 28, citing AI, even as it eliminated senior engineers, directors and chief architects.
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According to a study by the West Health-Gallup Center on Health in America, most "job locked" workers are afraid of losing health care insurance.
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Before your recruiters start calling unlisted references, HR leaders should read what one CEO's practice reveals.
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In more C-suites, the seat at the table is still in the room. HR just isn’t always invited to sit in it anymore.
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Europe risks losing the AI compute race, and a new report suggests workforce reskilling, not just chips, is a fix HR leaders need to plan for.
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Medical benefits are at the center of employer cost, risk and workforce strategy, but the path to better results is getting less straightforward.
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A German labor court ruling on worker misconduct shows employers are judged by their response, not the conflict's outcome.
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The goal is not rules for different generations; it's to build a flexible workforce strategy to support workers across career and life stages.
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Many employees are stuck in “pay paralysis,” according to new data from Payscale, which found a downturn in the number of organizations planning across-the-board pay increases next year.
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Recent research found a spike in the number of job candidates using AI to cheat in the hiring process, with most getting through undetected.
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A pattern of misaligned compensation decisions can surface as legal claims, regulatory inquiries or reputational damage.
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For HR leaders already grappling with many issues, the data points to a growing reality: financial stress has become a workplace issue.
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Far too many organizations are focused on leveraging AI to reduce inefficiencies, which deprives HR of its opportunity to be more “influential and impactful,” says ADP’s Joe DeSilva.
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Employers may have an incentive to help workers build emergency savings as financial strain increasingly spills into attendance, productivity and retention.
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The Commission says the EEO-1 and related reports may violate the Constitution. A hearing on the rescission is set for Aug. 11.
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The basketball legend signed with the 76ers for less than he's made throughout his career. The move highlights that pay is just part of what can motivate a new hire.
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The complaint alleges that Hims & Hers failed to clearly disclose that it charges for prescriptions almost immediately after consumers submit an intake form.
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Hugging Face's CEO says its own AI safety tool refused to act during the OpenAI hack, exposing a vendor risk blind spot HR tech buyers should know.
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The challenge is no longer simply adopting AI. It's building an HR ecosystem that can evolve alongside a changing regulation landscape.
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Granola's AI notetaker lawsuit echoes Otter.ai's, revealing consent and compliance risks HR leaders should track before the next filing.
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Google's new ATLAS report maps 15 million AI interactions across jobs and tasks, revealing what HR leaders need to know about AI adoption risks.
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New laws restrict automated insurance decisions and AI-provided therapy, with several major requirements taking effect in 2027.
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BMW will cut 8,000 jobs through voluntary redundancy, joining Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz as Germany's auto sector retrenches.
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Many workers do not experience change as a single event. They experience it as a continuous series of interruptions.
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According to Korn Ferry, only 16 percent of organizations are confident that their managers can explain AI-related pay and work changes.
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Date & Time: Wednesday, September 02, 2026 at 1:00 pm ET
Join Melissa Loble, Chief Learning Officer at Instructure, for a candid look at how organizations are building the judgment to grow their people on purpose and employees having a clear path to continue growing as AI rewrites which skills matter, and doing it faster than most workforce strategies can keep up.
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The top market for "cash-for-coverage" plans may be employers that already offer health benefits, according to a new EBRI survey report.
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New Fed research on 490,000 earnings calls finds execs describe AI productivity gains as almost entirely future tense, not yet realized.
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Brown & Brown spent less on claims in the first half of the year, but it's not sure that will continue.
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The great AI regret: Sixty-five percent of workers miss pre-AI work and 38% would remove gen AI entirely. What the data means for HR leaders.
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EU AI Act's Aug. 2 deadline hits HR directly. New data shows most companies lack the training and governance to meet it.
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eBay's $55.7M settlement over employee cyberstalking shows why HR can't overlook misconduct by powerful leaders.
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A new House bill would free employer coverage from the standard Affordable Care Act health plan template.
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A Senate committee on Thursday voted to advance Acting DOL Secretary Keith Sonderling's nomination as Secretary to the full Senate, which is expected to approve the former EEOC commissioner and HR Tech speaker.
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New research finds employees are turning to YouTube and other platforms to build their AI skills, highlighting a training gap.
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As AI absorbs more of the execution in knowledge work, StarHub’s Tan Toi Chia argues the real transformation is happening in how work is designed—and in the human capabilities that never show up on a balance sheet.
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Thursday, August 27, 2026 at 3:00 pm ET
When it comes to I-9 compliance, every employer in the U.S. is affected. Make sure you don’t miss this valuable conversation.
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Company culture is critical for AI transformation to take off, says Philip Morris International's Frederic Patitucci, a 35-year employee of the global employer.
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Underneath the automation headlines, something quieter is happening, and it will prove more consequential than the job counts. The jobs AI replaces first may be the exact jobs that once taught people how to lead.
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The payments giant is eliminating 7% of its workforce as it points to AI-driven efficiency and reinvests savings in growth areas.
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Twenty-two percent of both full-time and part-time say AI is being used by individual workers for business purposes on their own initiative, without formal company-approved tools or processes.
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Research shows employers and employees formerly on opposite sides of the return-to-work divide are somewhere in the middle with hybrid work.
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Budget analysts increased the federal group health tax subsidy value estimate 25% in just three years.
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A new survey finds that employers will continue shifting toward more "targeted, performance-driven" pay strategies.
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"Integrated leadership is, how do you hold the technology and the human side of this at the same time without letting either one win?" asks Cisco's Kelly Jones, the opening keynoter at HR Tech Conference.
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Women are more exposed to AI disruption and are less likely to experiment with the tools. What will this mean for women workers?
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Employers ghost candidates, and candidates ghost employers. Four hiring surveys disagree on who does it more, and why it happens.
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Monday, August 24, 2026 at 3:00 pm ET
Join us as hosts Steve Boese and Trish Steed of H3 HR Advisors discuss the trends and priorities impacting HR’s expanding role.
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Eighty-three percent of HR leaders say AI is reshaping what the business expects of them, as demand grows for more data-driven insights, faster service delivery and a larger role in workforce strategy. While nearly every HR function now uses AI in some form, new research from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) finds that AI […]
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Claim utilization is now the dominant driver of specialty drug trend as the percentage of members using specialty drugs rose to 5.5%.
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Eighty-one percent of HR pros use AI personally, only 36% at work. Six HR Tech Europe voices explain the trust and data gaps holding AI back.
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The average total payment per user for GLP-1 medications more than doubled for adults who don't have diabetes from 2017 to 2022.
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An OpenAI agent's hack of Hugging Face sparked a kill switch bill and vendor alliance, and HR leaders now have a stake in AI governance.
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Federal jury finds Nike willfully violated equal pay law, awarding a former engineer back pay and over $7.5 million in punitive damages.
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"The growing frustration is leading more clinicians to question their long-term future in the profession, which will create meaningful workforce challenges if left unaddressed," said Karen Leitner, M.D., an Inlightened network expert.
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AI adoption can make a huge difference, but it's critical the CHRO hold it all together. Here are the biggest areas to make this claim.
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Accenture’s Marta Lajmi argues the Western playbook for AI adoption – access, training, incentives – does not translate to a region where employees wait for leaders to make change feel safe.
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“Organizations are running into the trap of empathy being a buzzword instead of woven into the fabric of who they are as an organization," says Marci Klipfel, chief engagement officer at Businessolver.
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The retailer's HR head says AI tools are working because they free associates for conversations with members.
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Courts have started reaching the merits of the first wave of AI-related discrimination cases like Mobley v. Workday, which will likely open the door for similar suits in the future.
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Regulators have posted a code list for the No Surprises Act that plans and providers can use to frame disputes.
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Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI fell short. Two HR leaders explain what's driving the AI boomerang and how to avoid it.
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Organizations with a presence in the UK have three months to comply with updates to workplace harassment laws. Here's what they need to know.
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Eight in 10 HR professionals say their organization is not committing adequate resources to the professional development of their HR teams.
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Regulators are sifting through hundreds of comments about how a state should design its standard package.
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Readiness isn't a gate you pass through, and it isn't a signal that arrives to tell you it's safe to begin.
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OpenAI, AWS and the Pentagon are racing to embed forward-deployed engineers who redesign HR systems, largely without CHROs involved.
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Oracle, Amazon, Cloudflare and Block are all citing AI in 2026 workforce cuts. The reasoning behind each is not the same.
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Date & Time: Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
Part of AI Week, this session features Cornerstone workforce readiness experts and HR practitioners who will share first-hand experience building adaptive workforces inside real organizations:.
The post Workforce Readiness in the Age of AI: Where Do You Stand — and What Do You Do Next? appeared first on HR Executive.
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
Part of AI Week, this session features Cornerstone’s Kelly Carmody and Mike Siano who will explore invisible learning and how to move beyond traditional training to build skills continuously, in the flow of work.
The post AI Week | Invisible Learning: Building Skills at the Pace of Work appeared first on HR Executive.
The two tech giants are about to go head to head in court over allegations OpenAI poached employees and encouraged them to share trade secrets.
The post What’s behind Apple’s explosive suit against OpenAI? appeared first on HR Executive.
"Today's workforce needs aren't one-size-fits-all anymore, but many small businesses still feel forced into one-size-fits-all benefits," according to a recent report.
The post Small businesses losing talent with ‘one-size-fits-all’ benefits appeared first on HR Executive.
Disney cut several hundred jobs at Pixar, ESPN and National Geographic, following earlier 2026 cuts under CEO Josh D’Amaro.
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The architecture for something better already exists. What is missing is the coordination and the political will to build it before the wave hits.
The post America’s layoff safety net was built for a different economy, and AI is about to break it appeared first on HR Executive.
At a recent Senate hearing, acting DOL Secretary Keith Sonderling testified about recent policy changes and his outlook for AI and the American workforce.
The post Sonderling confirmation: Overtime, independent contractor rules get big audience appeared first on HR Executive.
A petition asks Google for guaranteed severance, buyouts before mandatory cuts and an end to forced rating distributions.
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U.S. Department of Labor's Taylor Stockton and UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan say data shows heavy AI adopters have grown headcount 10%.
The post What U.S. and UK workforce chiefs want HR to know about AI and hiring appeared first on HR Executive.
Many professionals are hunting for a guarantee of career survival rather than confronting the more urgent questions of market relevance.
The post The fallacy of the safe role: Why your career security is an inside job appeared first on HR Executive.
Ghost job fines are coming, ghosting is at record highs and research says discouraged candidates may not come back.
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CEO Maria Black, marking her 30th year at ADP, says that managing a workforce is only getting more complex, and so is HR’s role.
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The groups, including the NAACP, estimate that sticking with the current rules will increase the number of uninsured people by 50%.
The post Coalition warns of ‘historic health coverage losses’ up to 43 million in U.S. appeared first on HR Executive.
As hiring accelerates, how do you keep trust when speed outpaces verification? AI may be improving efficiency, but is introducing new risks.
The post Faster hiring, weaker trust? AI is reshaping identity risk appeared first on HR Executive.
A new study from Kyndryl finds a drop in AI workforce readiness, highlighting a growing problem for HR. Kyndryl's CHRO offers strategies to stay ahead and why the Human Systems Architect role could be key.
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Date & Time: Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET
In this webinar, Allie K. Miller explores what human-centered AI looks like in practice, sharing real-world examples and practical strategies for implementing AI in ways that are scalable, measurable, and focused on delivering meaningful business results.
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Atlassian VP Alicia Lenart talks about the new HR role for planning human and AI agent capacity, and why the company rejects AI mandates.
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