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,
Global engagement is falling, but job optimism is largely strong, according to the State of the Global Workplace report from Gallup.Employee engagement fell for the second year in a row in 2025, to a post-Covid low of 20%, after peaking at 23% in 2022. Overall, engagement is still up since
Sam Naficy is the CEO of Prodoscore, an employee productivity monitoring software that helps companies understand how work actually gets done across their teams. He’s set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how HR leaders can use people analytics
Employers added more jobs than expected in March, adding 178,000 jobs. That’s a marked improvement from the previous month, when employment declined by 133,000 roles.But the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest jobs report painted a less than rosy picture for worker wages, as average hourly earnings rose just 0.2% between
Jessica Hardeman is the global head of attraction, engagement, and culture for Indeed, where she is responsible for designing and scaling programs that attract, develop, and retain Indeed’s workforce. She is set to speak at HR Brew’s upcoming summit, Talent 2030 Collective: Recruit, Retain, Repeat, on April 21 about how
These days, fewer things seemingly make tech CEOs feel more alive than speculating about replacing their employees with AI.Taken at face value, you would think the era of robots replacing human workers was already here. Block CEO Jack Dorsey even suggested so in a February letter to shareholders (following layoffs
The US Department of Labor (DOL) is intensifying efforts to ready the US workforce for the age of AI. The agency announced multiple programs and partnerships in the last several weeks, including a text-message-based AI literacy course, as federal officials work to understand AI’s impacts on the workforce and help
There’s a famous saying you’ve probably heard about building the plane while flying it, but for AI governance pros, there’s no hanger in sight. It seems like building AI(rplane) governance systems will continue to occur on the fly.As AI tools inside the workplace evolve from experimentation and beta testing to
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced on April 2 it would administer $76 million across roughly 163 grants to advance workplace readiness for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.Approximately $62 million will support employment training for adults, while the rest will fund programs that help develop academic and literacy
Workers in Maine can now apply to take time off through the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program.The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) opened applications for the PFML program on Mar. 30, and will begin paying out benefits on May 1. Maine’s PFML program, which took effect on Jan.
If life’s a beach, then recruiters are currently caught in a riptide.Despite the recent hiring slowdown creating more competition in the job market, recruiters have confoundingly discovered that separating the wheat from the chaff has only gotten more difficult.Nearly three-fourths (72%) of global companies are experiencing a scarcity of qualified
For employers who’ve had to adjust their talent strategies to survive a flurry of challenges in recent years (skills shortages, AI changing the nature of work, and rising operational costs, to name a few), gig work, in its many iterations, paints a promising picture.Non-traditional forms of employment allow employers to
We are so back?After a dour jobs report in February, March delivered surprisingly strong gains for the US labor market, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest employment situation report. In fact, March’s job growth marked the highest monthly gains so far for President Trump’s second administration.However, looking beyond
Meta recently rolled out a new pay package that would grant certain senior executives nearly $1 billion each in stock should the company reach a $9 trillion valuation by 2031.This moonshot award promises top executives generous compensation for meeting aggressive targets, not unlike the pay packages Tesla shareholders have approved
As the US continues to fund a war in Iran, President Donald Trump said childcare funding from the federal government is off the table.During an Easter reception at the White House on Apr. 1, the president said he’d directed Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought not to “send