Today's Human Resources Pulse
Greenhouse completes acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, adding voice‑AI interviewing
Greenhouse announced the completion of its acquisition of Ezra AI Labs, a voice‑AI interviewing platform. The technology enables on‑demand, role‑specific conversations that are scored against a uniform rubric, delivering transcripts and explainable evaluations. The deal expands Greenhouse’s structured hiring methodology to the earliest stage of the recruiting funnel.
Galatoire's Names Nicole Theriot First Female Culinary Director in 121‑Year History
Galatoire's announced Nicole Theriot as its new director of culinary operations, making her the first woman to lead the kitchen of the 121‑year‑old French‑Creole institution. The move follows recent gender milestones at other New Orleans icons and signals a shift in elite culinary leadership.
Oracle Cuts Up to 30,000 Jobs to Fund $50 B AI Expansion
Oracle announced a workforce reduction of up to 30,000 employees, representing roughly 18% of its headcount, to free $8‑10 B for a $50 B generative AI expansion. The cuts, executed via a single email, highlight a stark shift in HR strategy as...
Gen Z Takes the Helm: Young Leaders Redefine Corporate Culture
Generation Z employees are moving into managerial positions as the oldest members of the cohort turn 29. Their demand for purpose, flexibility and instant transparency is forcing companies to rewrite the rules of leadership. Analysts warn that firms that ignore...
WGA Secures Tentative Four‑Year Deal with Studios, Staving Off New Strike
The Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative four‑year agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, adding a multimillion‑dollar health‑plan boost, AI usage safeguards and higher streaming residuals. The deal, if ratified, ends months of uncertainty...
GUEST COLUMN: Beyond Layoffs, India Emerges as Creative-Tech Hub
Despite widespread headlines about layoffs in media and tech, the industry is undergoing a structural shift toward integrated, agile creative‑tech workflows. Companies are redistributing talent globally, positioning India as a central hub for strategy, production, and performance optimisation. Accelerated hiring...
New Chef Program Helps People With Autism Find Jobs in Fine-Dining Restaurants
Chefs on the Spectrum, a new initiative launched by chef Franklin Becker and autistic cook Joseph Valentino, aims to train and place people on the autism spectrum in fine‑dining kitchens. The program debuted at a $2,500 fundraiser for Autism Speaks...
Gen Z-Ers Are Becoming Bosses. Here's What that Means for Everyone Else
Generation Z, now entering its late‑20s, is rapidly moving into managerial and C‑suite roles, reshaping corporate culture. Their expectations—purpose‑driven work, real‑time transparency, and flexible boundaries—contrast sharply with the traditional loyalty‑for‑reward model. At the same time, AI‑driven efficiency pressures intensify the need...
Former Co-Op Boss Was Paid Almost £2m Before Leaving After Group’s Difficult Year
Former Co‑op Group chief executive Shirine Khoury‑Haq left in March after four years, taking a total 2025 remuneration of almost £1.9 million (about $2.4 million). The package included a £165,000 ($211,000) “rewarding growth” bonus and a pending £682,000 ($873,000) performance bonus that...
Is U.S. Wage Growth Slowing Or Not?
The average wage for typical American private‑sector workers increased only 3% over the past six months on a seasonally‑adjusted basis, aligning with pre‑pandemic norms and trailing the 4.1% annualized growth seen from mid‑2023 to mid‑2025. The slowdown is driven almost...
467 Black Professionals Land Tech Jobs, 33 More to 500
We have helped 467 Black people get new jobs in Tech. 33 More success stories until we reach 500.
Portugal Among EU Countries with the Most People Working Close to 50 Hours a Week
A Randstad analysis shows Portugal ranks fourth in the EU for employees working 49 hours or more per week, with 9.1% of its workforce clocking such long hours. This exceeds the EU average of 6.5% and is higher than Germany and...
Impact Workforce Solutions Launches Impact Robotics to Address Labor Shortages with Workforce Automation
Impact Workforce Solutions has unveiled Impact Robotics, a new division designed to combat persistent labor shortages by embedding automation into existing workforce processes. The unit will focus on repetitive, high‑turnover and hard‑to‑fill roles, positioning robots as collaborators that free employees...
AI‑Driven Layoffs Reveal Unethical Business Priorities
30k Oracle employees inhumanely terminated at 6am in favor of AI. Not based on performance but simply because they can and because it's good for their business reorganization in favor of AI. Just because an employer can make a legal...
Rehire Your Own Talent: 2026’s Smartest Strategy
The Great Disengaged: Why Re-Recruiting Your Own People is the Smartest #Talent Strategy in 2026 @TEBReview https://t.co/NejAUXzMQE #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
The Multifamily Operations Daily Huddle: Why Psychological Safety Drives Performance
Multifamily operators are treating psychological safety as a core revenue strategy rather than a feel‑good initiative. A leasing associate’s early flag of a pricing anomaly illustrates how safe environments surface risks before they become costly line items. Leaders who meet...
Future Innovation Thrives When Work Becomes Play
Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to...
China's 15th Five-Year Plan Launches Manufacturing Projects to Create Millions of Skilled Jobs
China unveiled major manufacturing and infrastructure projects under its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to generate millions of skilled jobs and raise wages. The plan emphasizes AI, integrated circuits, biomanufacturing and new‑energy, while pledging vocational training for over 10 million workers.
MHA Makes AI Use a Condition for Bonuses and Promotions
MHA, one of Britain’s largest accounting firms, announced that successful AI deployment will now determine promotions and partner bonus payouts. The policy affects roughly 2,000 employees across 30 offices and follows similar moves by consulting giants, underscoring a growing HRTech...
Mercor Cyberattack Forces Meta to Suspend AI Recruiting Partnership
AI recruiting platform Mercor confirmed a security breach linked to the open‑source LiteLLM tool, leading Meta to suspend its partnership. The incident, tied to extortion group Lapsus$, underscores growing cyber‑risk for HRTech firms that rely on third‑party AI infrastructure.
Twin Peaks CMO Melissa Fry Emphasizes Confidence and Inclusion in Leadership
Twin Peaks' chief marketing officer Melissa Fry outlined her people‑first, confidence‑based leadership style in a fresh franchising.com profile. The veteran marketer, a Ragan’s Top Women in Marketing 2024 honoree, detailed how she aligns franchisees, modernizes the brand and empowers emerging...
Netflix Appoints Kelly Pakula as VP of Global Corporate Communications
Netflix has hired Instacart veteran Kelly Pakula as Vice President of Global Corporate Communications, reporting to CCO Dani Dudeck. The move adds a second former Instacart leader to Netflix’s communications team amid a revenue surge and a broader talent war...
McNear Agency Services Adds Full‑Scale HR Consulting to Integrated Facility Portfolio in Virginia
McNear Agency Services LLC announced the launch of a dedicated human‑resources consulting line, extending its integrated, compliance‑first service model to recruitment, employee‑relations and workforce analytics for clients in Virginia, Washington D.C., and Maryland. The move reflects rising demand for single‑source facility...
AI Could Spawn a New Middle‑Management Tier, Podcast Warns
Charlie Warzel’s Galaxy Brain podcast hosted AI experts Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, warning that generative AI agents may force many employees into a new middle‑management role. The discussion cites Anthropic CEO Dario Amide’s prediction of a 10‑20% rise in unemployment...
Investigative Report Shows Chinese Stay‑at‑Home Moms Compelled Into Unpaid Labor
An investigative piece in Japan's Weekly Economist uncovers that Chinese stay‑at‑home mothers are systematically forced into unpaid domestic work, contradicting official narratives of gender‑gap improvement. The report cites the World Economic Forum’s 2025 Gender Gap Index and highlights the gap...
Culture by Design: How Leaders Can Create Organizational Values That Work
Executives consistently rank culture as the single biggest driver of financial performance, yet most allocate insufficient time to shaping it. The Strategic‑Alignment Values Process (SAVP) offers a five‑step framework that ties organizational values directly to strategic priorities while reflecting employees'...
Stand Out: Avoid Being Labeled with Undermatched Peers
The market is full of people with the same job title and wildly different skill levels. One of the hardest parts of the job search is making sure hiring managers and recruiters do not group you in with the crowd...
When Trusted Advisor Turns Risk: Seeking Guidance
I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this...
The Fear Factor: Why Quiet Quitting and Job Hugging Signal a Crisis of Psychological Safety
Gallup’s 2025 report shows global employee engagement has slipped to just 21 percent, costing about $438 billion in lost productivity in 2024. The article links this disengagement to the rise of “quiet quitting” and “job hugging,” behaviors rooted in depleted psychological safety....
Remote Senior Communications Role at GoFundMe: $145k‑$218k
GoFundMe is hiring a Senior Corporate Communications Manager, fully remote, $145k-$218k salary. These are the types of opportunities I share on my Substack 💻
Organizational Cultures that Work Focus on Their Greatest Asset – People
Clark Ingram argues that sustainable organizational culture hinges on core principles—shared goals, integrity, respect, communication, transparency, growth opportunities, and a positive environment—rather than superficial perks like ping‑pong tables. He stresses that a clear employer brand helps attract candidates who fit...
Are Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest Salary You'll Accept?
MarketWatch highlights a growing practice called “surveillance wages,” where employers use personal data—such as payday‑loan history, credit‑card balances, and social‑media activity—to infer the lowest salary a candidate will accept. An audit of 500 AI‑driven labor‑management firms found that vendors serving...
Leadership Thrives Where Heart Beats Logic’s Math
“The mgt. tools typically used to run teams/orgs. are in the realm of reason, the domain of the logical brain, where 2 + 2 = 4. Yet the #leadership wisdom that gets the best from ppl extends beyond this, to the...
Halo Director Alleges He Experienced ‘Multiple Harassment Campaigns’ and ‘Blacklisting, Fraud, Rampant Favoritism’ at Halo Studios
Glenn Israel, a former 343 Industries art director, posted on LinkedIn alleging a coordinated harassment campaign at Halo Studios, including blacklisting, fraud, and cronyism. He claims senior executives and HR deliberately ignored his complaints and threatened retaliation, ultimately forcing his...
VC Hiring: Network Before Applications, Learn the Hidden Game
Each month I hear a handful of aspiring VCs give up on recruiting. They’ve interviewed with 25+ firms over 2 years with no offers. This makes me so upset to hear. Because in most cases it’s not that they weren’t good enough....
True Freedom Requires Control over Work Conditions
If you can’t control where you work, who you work with, where you work, and when you work, are you really free?
Deep Thinking Skill Erodes as AI Fuels Workplace Efficiency
Ajay Tejasvi, PhD, warns that AI‑enabled shortcuts are eroding leaders' capacity for deep, sustained thinking. The shift threatens nuanced decision‑making and independent judgment, prompting a call for renewed focus on reflective practices in leadership development.
Startups Praise Meritocracy, Yet Underpay Top Performers
Startups love meritocracy until you ask for a raise. You hit quota for 6 months, close deals, then hear “next quarter” while a founder pays $15k a month to an advisor who joins one call a week. If your numbers grow and...
Trump Administration Proposes Cutting CFPB Workforce by Two‑Thirds
The Trump administration has filed a new plan to slash the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s staff from 1,700 authorized positions to roughly 550, a two‑thirds reduction. The proposal, outlined in a court filing, faces fierce resistance from the agency’s employee...
NetherRealm Studios Posts Temporary QA Tester Job Positions for Their Next Project
NetherRealm Studios has listed temporary Quality Assurance tester positions for its upcoming, as‑yet‑unnamed project, indicating the game has entered the testing phase. The hiring follows Ed Boon’s earlier comments that the studio works on multiple titles simultaneously and comes after...
Simple Norms Beat Fancy Programs for Neurodiversity Inclusion
I spent an hour (!) on a call with a reporter last week talking about the significant delta between employer self-evaluation of their neurodivergence inclusion and employee experience. One of the most consistent things I observe across the companies I’m invited...
Culture Is the Business Operating System, Not an App
If you think about business like a computer, culture is the operating system. Everything else is an “app.” Finance is an app. Creative is an app. Strategy is an app. But culture is the operating system.
Two Days in the Office a Month? L.A. City Attorney Candidates Tussle over Telework
Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto enforces a three‑day‑in‑office rule for most staff attorneys, while challenger Marissa Roy argues for a two‑days‑per‑month schedule modeled on the state attorney general’s office. The dispute has split the city attorneys union, which filed an...
The Biggest Health Care Gap HR Leaders Overlook Isn’t Access. It’s Presence
HR departments have layered sophisticated health‑benefit stacks—high‑deductible plans, mental‑health apps, telemedicine and AI cost tools—yet employees feel overwhelmed. A Kaiser Family Foundation study finds nearly half of insured adults can’t understand coverage or out‑of‑pocket costs. CareCrowd’s co‑founders label the resulting...
Creating Workplaces Where People Thrive Never Gets Old
I missed celebrating my practice’s birthday last month because it was peak season, but I was just reflecting on this week and about how making workplaces people want to do their best work in is just never, ever going to...
Engineering Recruiter Finally Targets Hardcore Factorio Fans
Shocks me that it took this long to see an engineering recruiting ad in a Factorio fan space. (Seablock is a notoriously difficult/grindy mod for the game.) https://t.co/tKUnIgj6Lj
Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch Earns $6.7 Million in 2025 Amid Spin‑Off Transition
Starz disclosed that CEO Jeffrey Hirsch earned $6.7 million in total compensation for the 2025 fiscal year, a figure that includes salary, stock awards and incentives. The payout, revealed in a proxy filing, underscores a 67‑to‑1 pay ratio and comes as...
Resumes Are Outdated; Showcase Achievements and Impact
RT The resume is an artifact from another era. Its really about how well you can articulate your accomplishments, what you can actually do for a company, and what outcomes you deliver. #Hiring #Leadership @Star_CIO https://t.co/5Ohw7w5l2f
Reviving Recruitment: Restoring Signal in Selection Process
Why the Entire #Selection Process is Losing Its Signal (and How to Fix It) @ERE_net https://t.co/sWi63A8qjw #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Union Crews Walk Off: Safety Must Trump Production
This is extremely serious and why unions and professional crews are so important… Crews walking off productions over safety issues has happened before, and has led to horrible outcomes even death. Majors, etc should also walk off that set. They’re lucky...
Top HR & People
The best HR & People Analytics articles of March 2026 @david_green_uk https://t.co/0OMk02qWFd #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR