Benjamin Granger is the chief workplace psychologist at cloud-based experience management platform Qualtrics, where he leads the intersection between employee and customer experience. He’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how workforce analytics can better support employee development
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An engineer got fired for making offensive comments about his non-Christian co-workers, then sued for religious discrimination. There was just one problem: he wouldn’t show anyone the EEOC charge he filed. TL;DR: A federal court in Texas granted summary judgment to a technology employer on an employee’s Title VII religious
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Apr. 10 that it had reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with IBM, whereby the company agreed to pay $17 million in damages over its DEI programming.The government accused the company of violating the False Claims Act, saying IBM “knowingly maintained practices that the United
Imagine if NASA built a rocket ship, laid out a plan to go to the moon, but didn’t train the astronauts on how to crew the new vessel.NASA would never. In fact, the Artemis II crew trained for three years in a replica Orion capsule practicing real-world (pun intended) scenarios
A police department ran a volunteer program that looked and felt a lot like a job, complete with uniforms, badges, ranks, performance reviews, and a paramilitary chain of command. Three young women in the program alleged sex discrimination and retaliation, got dismissed, waited over two years to file charges, and
Beyond the various discussions around DEI—and whether it’s good, bad, or somewhere in between—there’s a deeper conversation happening between DEI practitioners: how do you create and execute DEI training that will resonate with workers?This comes at a time when some companies, including AT&T, Meta, and Molson Coors, have ended DEI
You know HR people can be funny people, and we know HR people can be funny people, but has the rest of your organization gotten the memo?Heed the advice of the funny people and get cracking on those jokes.“If you’re your authentic self and you’ve got a sense of humor,
Big changes are happening within Microsoft’s HR team.The tech giant announced sweeping changes to its HR function last month via an employee memo sent by its chief people officer, Amy Coleman, and subsequently obtained and leaked by Business Insider.Sweeping changes. The memo announced the departures of several top HR executives,