From DEI rollbacks to leadership challenges, HR pros face new obstacles seemingly every day.HR Brew has spoken with several authors over the past year whose books aim to help people people navigate these and other pressing issues. Here, we’ve rounded up a few that might be worth adding to the
The world is filled with irony, especially in 2026. Just a month ago, the world’s biggest HR organization lost a workplace discrimination suit. Now, the Department of Labor (DOL) could be facing its own potential HR violations.A DOL employee filed a complaint against Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, alleging she abused
If last year’s news cycle felt like a nonstop barrage of corporate layoff announcements, that’s because it was.Employers announced over 1,200,000 job cuts in 2025, up 58% from 2024, when 761,000 layoffs were disclosed, according to an analysis from outplacement services firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas. That’s also the highest
Higher-paid workers will have greater chances of being selected for the H-1B visa program under a new rule issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last month.On Dec. 23, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the DHS was amending the process for H-1B visa recipient selection
As the birth rate in Japan continues to fall, the government is encouraging residents to get busy creating the next generation of workers. Some employers are getting in on the “action” as well with a new benefit: dating!Where in the world? Japan’s government has pushed employers to offer more family-friendly
New year, new goals—and new strategies for setting them? Yes, please.“I absolutely love goal setting,” Garima Shah, co-founder and president of B2B SaaS platform Biller Genie, said during a recent episode of HR Brew’s People Person podcast. But goal setting isn’t just up to HR leaders, or even people managers.
Global employment platform Oyster announced Tuesday founder and CEO Tony Jamous would transition into an executive chairman position. The company also announced Hadi Moussa as its incoming chief executive, effective today.“I started this business in late 2019 to reduce inequality [and] reverse brain drain,” Jamous told HR Brew exclusively Monday,
Want a jobs report worth leaking? December’s wasn’t it.On Thursday night, President Donald Trump leaked a graphic in an attempt to brag that the private sector accounted for all job growth in 2025, citing numbers that only added up when the Bureau of Labor Statistics published its normally highly protected
Breaking up is hard to do—especially when the split isn’t on your terms.On Jan. 1, 2026, New Yorkers enrolled in Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans received news that their insurer had broken up with Mount Sinai, one of the largest hospital systems in the US.In an open letter,
HR teams across the globe are under pressure to leverage AI to transform services and processes with the help of this transformational technology. It’s early days, and in an AI-enabled world of work, the only thing that’s currently abundantly clear is that the future ways of working are changing, and
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) proposal to rescind 2024 guidance on workplace harassment is being met by condemnation from former EEOC commissioners and Department of Labor officials.The proposal was issued as a “final rule” to the White House on Dec. 29, 2025, bypassing the comment period traditionally afforded to
Cancer has become a top concern for employers in recent years, due not only to its impact on worker well-being, but also its effect on healthcare costs. In 2025 cancer was the top condition driving employers’ health costs, according to Business Group on Health’s healthcare strategy survey, followed by musculoskeletal