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.
Ottawa Introduces New Regulations for Immigration and Citizenship Consultants
Canada’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship department announced new regulations that will take effect on July 15, 2026, expanding the authority of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). The rules give the College stronger enforcement tools, higher penalties, and a compensation fund to protect clients from fraudulent advisers. Starting April 2027, the CICC must publish a more detailed public register of licensed consultants, improving transparency for employers and HR teams. The changes respond to rising fraud cases and aim to standardize discipline across the profession.
Mercer Teams with Syndio to Fuse AI Pay Governance with Compensation Advisory
Mercer announced a strategic alliance with Syndio, linking the consulting firm’s compensation expertise to Syndio’s AI‑powered pay governance platform. The partnership, unveiled in New York and Seattle, seeks to give enterprise clients a unified solution for designing, governing and executing pay...
ReBIT Gets Deep P as Head of Talent Acquisition
Deep P has been appointed head of talent acquisition at ReBIT, the Reserve Bank of India’s wholly‑owned technology subsidiary. He joins after more than two decades of recruiting experience across IT, BFSI, ITeS and retail sectors, most recently serving as...
Costco, Sesame, IVI RMA Partner on Fertility Care Where Employers Often Fall Short
Costco, self‑pay marketplace Sesame, and global clinic IVI RMA have teamed up to offer a fertility‑care membership that bundles virtual expert guidance, diagnostic support and clinic referrals. The service costs $119 per month for the general public and $99 for Costco...
Match Group Slows Hiring as Company Pushes AI-Focused Workforce Strategy
Match Group announced it will slow hiring to reallocate resources toward building an AI‑native workforce. CFO Steven Bailey said the focus will be on employee training, internal AI tools, and technology upgrades rather than expanding headcount. The company posted Q1...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Predicts AI Will Render People‑manager Roles Obsolete
Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky told the Invest Like The Best podcast that artificial intelligence will soon eliminate the need for traditional people‑manager positions. His comments join a growing chorus of tech leaders advocating flatter, AI‑driven org charts, and come...
U.S. Labor Department Proposes Rule to Revert Contractor Classification to 2021 Standard
On Feb. 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal to replace the 2024 employee‑independent contractor rule with the 2021 framework. The change would rely on two core factors—control and profit opportunity—to classify workers, potentially expanding the pool...
Ubisoft Took the Subsidies. Workers in Montreal and Halifax Took the Fall
Ubisoft trimmed its global workforce from 21,000 to 17,000 between 2022 and 2026 and abruptly shut its Halifax studio, laying off 71 employees just days after a 74% union‑support vote. The closure was justified as a lack of viable work,...
Faces of HR: How Kim Marsh Is Rebuilding the Blueprint for Modern Hiring
Kim Marsh, Senior Director of Talent Acquisition at Pebl, is redefining hiring by treating each hire as a strategic business lever. Leveraging AI‑driven tools, she has slashed external agency spend by more than 80% while preserving talent quality. Marsh embeds...
Retaliatory Reference in Rice Cooker Dispute Rinses University of £264k
Aberystwyth University was ordered to pay former part‑time cleaner Ms Ong roughly £264,400 (about $336,000) after an employment tribunal found her dismissal unfair and the university’s reference to a prospective employer retaliatory. The judge highlighted procedural failures, including a vague suspension...
Japan Airlines Deploys Chinese Humanoid Robots at Haneda in First Large-Scale Trial
Japan Airlines has launched a two‑year pilot using Chinese‑made Unitree G1 and UBTech Walker E humanoid robots for ground‑handling at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The trial, run with GMO AI & Robotics, aims to prove labor‑saving potential amid Japan’s shrinking workforce. It marks the...
AI, Cloud, and Cybersecurity Driving IT Jobs Demand, Says Foundit Report
The 2026 foundit IT Trends report shows India’s tech hiring is shifting from volume‑driven to value‑led, with AI/ML, cloud and cybersecurity accounting for roughly 65% of demand. The sector is projected to grow 6% year‑on‑year, creating about 132,000 new roles...
‘Businesses Should Make More Effort to Track Employee Confidence’
Culture Amp’s analysis of over 3,000 firms reveals a 19‑point drop in employee confidence in company success over the past five years. Employees who work for organisations that have tracked confidence continuously saw belief in three‑year success fall from 80%...
Is Generative AI Creating More Jobs?
The blog questions whether generative AI is truly net‑creating jobs, noting recent AI‑driven layoffs such as Coinbase’s 14% staff cut. It contrasts hype from executives who claim AI accelerates delivery with economists like Torsten Slok who argue the disruption will shift...
If Prayer Isn’t Enough to Support a Religious Exemption Request, What Is?
The Ninth Circuit panel upheld a district‑court dismissal of a Title VII claim by a data‑privacy executive who sought a religious exemption from weekly COVID‑19 testing after Oregon’s vaccine mandate. The panel deemed her objection “purely secular” because it rested...
Cambridge Hires Moody’s Executive to Lead BridgePort RIA
Cambridge Investment Research’s BridgePort RIA appointed Clara Sierra, a former senior director at Moody’s Analytics, as Managing Director to oversee advisor experience, technology, operations, compliance and growth initiatives. She succeeds retiring founder Eddie Rollins, who launched the platform in 2024....
The Highest Paid Mortgage Executives in 2025
In 2025 Rocket Cos. CEO Varun Krishna topped the mortgage‑industry pay chart with $52.9 million in total compensation, largely driven by stock awards and a $5.2 million cash component. Other public mortgage leaders saw mixed results: United Wholesale Mortgage’s Mat Ishbia redirected $6 million in...
#366 Diversity & Inclusion Champion – Engineering Matters Awards
In this episode of Engineering Matters, host Stuart Naismith – a primary teacher and creator of the YouTube channel “STEM with Mr N” – discusses how low‑cost, hands‑on experiments and diverse career interviews can spark early interest in STEM and...
Chinese Companies Struggle to Attract Talent Abroad, LinkedIn exec...Rising Airfares See Train Travel Uptake During China’s May holiday...EU Plan to...
Chinese firms expanding abroad are hitting a talent wall, especially for local sales and compliance roles, according to a LinkedIn executive. Rising jet fuel costs and travel‑agent restrictions pushed air passenger numbers down 5.7% during the May Day holiday, while...
AI, Authenticity, and the New Talent Reality: Vizzy on Re-Humanizing Hiring
Vizzy, the UK‑based hiring platform, won the UNLEASH Startup Award and has since added an AI‑driven tool to help enterprise clients such as Tiffany & Co., Virgin Group and Louis Vuitton manage massive applicant volumes. CEO Chris Woodward‑Jones says the...
New National Research Partnership to Study Remote and Hybrid Work
The Western Development Commission and Atlantic Technological University have launched a two‑year, TU RISE‑funded research partnership called Connected Futures to examine how remote and hybrid work is reshaping Ireland’s economy, communities and wellbeing. Building on two decades of remote‑work surveys and...
Book Briefing: ‘Mission Ready’ by Lindy Elkins-Tanton
Lindy Elkins‑Tanton, director of the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and leader of NASA’s $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid mission, has released “Mission Ready,” a guide on building high‑performing teams under pressure. Drawing from her experience steering the Psyche spacecraft, she argues that...
Why Your AI Efforts Have a Culture Problem
Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index, based on a survey of 20,000 workers in ten countries, reveals that organizational culture and manager support are twice as predictive of employees perceiving AI as beneficial compared with individual mindsets. Only 19% of respondents...
Why Payers Must Lead the Charge for Better Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
Zelis’ State of the Healthcare Financial Experience report shows employers are moving beyond pure cost control, treating benefits as a strategic lever for talent attraction, productivity, and retention. Sixty percent of benefits leaders now rate employee satisfaction as “very important,”...
Asterix Health Raises £2.1m to Boost NHS Primary Care Hiring
Asterix Health announced a £2.1 million (≈$2.7 million) pre‑seed round to scale its remote‑GP platform for NHS primary‑care practices. Founded in 2024 by Julian Titz and Max Thilo after personal health battles, the startup will use the capital to onboard new NHS...
Overtime: Pay It If You Know About It
Two recent FLSA cases highlight how an employer’s actual or constructive knowledge of overtime determines liability. In Merritt v. Texas Farm Bureau, the court ruled the agency was not liable because it neither knew nor had a reasonable opportunity to...
16-Year Manager Sues ADP over Disability Accommodation Firing
ADP, the global HR services firm, is being sued by Angela Suber, a senior manager of 16 years, who claims she was fired weeks after the company approved her work‑from‑home accommodation for breathing‑related health issues. Suber alleges the termination followed...
Generating Documents via a Link in Custom MDF Objects in SAP SuccessFactors
HR teams using SAP SuccessFactors often face a cumbersome, multi‑step process to generate employee‑facing documents such as offer letters and salary certificates. A new approach embeds a clickable link directly within custom Metadata Framework (MDF) objects, invoking the Document Generation...
Australia Isn’t Losing Girls in STEM – It’s Losing Women
Australia’s STEM pipeline delivers qualified women, but the workforce retains only a fraction. Women comprise 27% of the STEM labor force, yet merely 15% of those with STEM degrees stay in related roles, and they hold just 12% of senior...
Lumina’s Aria Aims to Fix What Is Broken at the Top of the Hiring Funnel
Lumina has launched Aria, an AI hiring agent that replaces manual resume screening with asynchronous voice interviews, promising up to a fifty‑fold speed increase. The platform matches resumes to job descriptions, conducts structured interviews, and delivers three explainable scores—resume match,...
How to Answer "Why Should We Hire You?" Without Waffling
The blog post tackles the notoriously tricky interview question “Why should we hire you?” by revealing that employers are really asking candidates to solve a specific problem. It introduces a three‑step formula—identify key skills, showcase a quantified example, and tie...
Fresh Graduates in Singapore Earn Higher Wages than in Most East Asian Economies: MOM
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower reported that fresh‑graduate median wages in 2023‑24 outpace most East Asian peers after purchasing‑power adjustments. Only Hong Kong registers a slightly higher figure. The wage gap reflects Singapore’s concentration of high‑value‑added sectors, multinational headquarters, and deep integration...
STAT+: What Was Lost at the FDA
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversaw the termination of roughly 3,500 FDA employees last year. The agency now targets hiring more than 3,200 scientists, reviewers, and investigators, but has added only about 350 staffers as of...
Talent Acquisition | Why Candidate Feedback Is Disappearing From Recruitment, and How It Can Return
Recruiters now face a flood of applications – a 286% year‑on‑year rise, with vacancies attracting 47‑280 candidates on average. This surge has led many firms to stop providing any feedback, creating a reputation risk as 70% of candidates say feedback...
Travel Trade Coordinator / VisitDenmark (London, Fixed-Term)
VisitDenmark is hiring a Travel Trade Coordinator for its London office on a fixed‑term contract from August 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027. The role supports the Head of Travel Trade and a global team by coordinating B2B projects, updating the travel trade website...
No Federal Paid Vacation Right; Avg 10 Days
There is no federal legal entitlement to paid vacation or holidays in the USA; paid time off (PTO) is determined by employer policy or contract. While not mandated, most full-time workers receive an average of 10 days of paid vacation...
Top Team Hiring Competitive Frontend Roles, SF or Remote
i know the folks at @Anything, and honestly, they’re one of the best bunch you could work with 🔥 some seriously good frontend roles just opened up 👀 > SF or remote > full-time + contract > v. competitive comp if you’ve built cool stuff,...
‘Candidate Concierges’ | Is AI Really Changing the Role of Recruiters?
Artificial intelligence is reshaping recruitment, with 68% of professionals now using AI tools that save an average of three hours per week. However, a 43% surge in applicant volume over the past year has intensified screening pressures, prompting a shift...
'Shielded' | BBC Accused of 'Cover-Up' Over Alleged Assault on Female Colleague by Presenter
The BBC is under renewed scrutiny after a Mail on Sunday report alleges that a male presenter assaulted a female colleague in 2014, breaking her wrists. According to the article, senior BBC executives were aware of the incident but neither...
What 300 Emails Say About Americans and the Army’s Direct Commission Program
The Army’s Direct‑Commission Program, authorized by the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act to attract civilian experts in AI, cyber, robotics and data science, has commissioned just over 300 officers since 2020 despite reforms that trimmed the processing window from 18...
AI Is Exposing the Generational Fault Lines HR Has Been Ignoring
The article warns that rapid AI adoption is magnifying long‑standing generational tensions in U.S. workplaces. More than half of Gen Z workers and a third of Baby Boomers say age‑related conflict drives stress and burnout, contributing to the lowest employee‑engagement rate...
Malaysia Prioritises Talent Development to Support Semiconductor Industry Growth
At SEMICON Southeast Asia 2026, Malaysia’s investment agency MIDA unveiled a talent‑centric strategy to shift the country’s semiconductor sector from assembly toward high‑value IC design, advanced packaging and smart manufacturing. The plan couples national programmes—such as the Special Taskforce‑Talent Facilitation,...
Stop Apologising for the Gap on the Resume
Executive recruiter Kristof argues that resume gaps are a mythic obstacle; he observed that recruiters spend under one second looking at any gap and never let it affect a shortlist. What matters is whether the profile’s keywords match the search...
How the Right Tools and Training Enable Inclusion in Practice
The article argues that inclusive outcomes hinge on equipping managers with the right tools, training, and confidence, rather than treating inclusion as a standalone policy. It highlights how managers’ daily decisions shape culture, especially around neurodiversity and disability conversations. P&G...
Code Red: What Leaders Can Do About the Great Employee Engagement Crisis
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 report shows global employee engagement has fallen to 20%, with the UK at a record low of just 10% engaged workers. The decline, costing an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity, is linked to...
Why Gender Wellbeing Inequality Should Concern Every Leader
The GLWS 2025 Gender Wellbeing Gap Report reveals that only 7.5% of women feel they are thriving at work and that overall work‑related wellbeing for women has dropped by more than half over the past decade. Seventy percent of women...
The Future Of Work Has Outgrown “Good Enough” Leadership. Your 6-Part Playbook To Become An Exceptional Leader Starts Here
Effective leadership has shifted from merely meeting targets to mastering heart‑based skills amid AI, hybrid work, and a Gen Z workforce. A Harris Poll of 2,206 U.S. employees found only 30% of leaders are deemed exceptional, while 54% are merely...
New Research Reveals “Credibility Gap” In Internal Comms: 94% Say It’s Respected, but only 30% Can Prove Business Impact
Award‑winning intranet provider Oak Engage’s new research shows a “credibility gap” in internal communications. While 94% of HR and communications leaders say the function is respected, only 30% can demonstrate measurable business impact. The survey of 250 UK professionals urges...
Cezanne HR Appoints Chief Product Officer to Drive Next Phase of Growth
Cezanne HR announced the appointment of Julie Lally as its new Chief Product Officer, a role created to steer the next phase of product growth. Lally arrives with more than 25 years of experience in HR and payroll technology, having...
People Moves: Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers Names Anthony President of US Assure; CRC Group Adds to Specialty Team
Ryan Specialty Underwriting Managers promoted Amber Anthony to president of US Assure, separating the title from CEO Alan Ferguson. Anthony will keep her duties as chief marketing officer while overseeing marketing, sales and distribution. US Assure also named Steve Bristow...