🎯 Today's Human Resources Pulse
Cloudflare cuts 20% of staff, citing AI‑driven role redundancy
Cloudflare reported record revenue growth but announced a 20% workforce reduction focused on middle‑management, finance, legal and internal audit roles, which the CEO labeled “measurers.” Matthew Prince argued that advanced AI can perform measurement tasks more accurately than humans, rendering those positions obsolete, while engineers and sales staff were spared.
Also developing:
🚀 Top Human Resources Headlines
Intuit QuickBooks Workforce: A New Era of Human Capital Management and an Advisory Opportunity for Accounting Firms
QuickBooks Workforce is the most significant expansion of Intuit's small-business HCM offering in the platform's history.
CPA Practice Advisor
HRForecast 2026: Capability Will Define Employability, Credentials Will Provide Context – Sudakshina Bhattacharya, President & CHRO, HDFC ERGO General Insurance
Hiring in 2026 reflects a deeper recalibration. Educational qualifications still signal learning depth. But as roles evolve rapidly, employability is increasingly being determined by demonstrated capability. The shift is not about replacing credentials with competencies. It is about integrating both more intelligently. Sudakshina Bhattacharya, President & Chief Human Resources Officer at HDFC ERGO General Insurance, [...] The post HRForecast 2026: Capability will define employability, credentials will provide context – Sudakshina Bhattacharya, President & CHRO, HDFC ERGO General Insurance appeared first on HR Katha.
HR Katha (India)
Forget Recruiting: Why Your HR Team Needs to Master the Art of ‘Seduction’ to Win Top Talent in 2026
Job hugging and the rise of AI mean that hiring experts have to take a different approach to attracting new workers.
Inc. — Leadership
The $10 Trillion Problem: Why Employee Disengagement Is Skyrocketing and What It’s Costing Your Business
Contrasting Gallup data shows global workforce disengagement rising to 80 percent—the highest since 2020—even as employees feel upbeat about their lives and job prospects.
Inc. — Leadership
Brendan Pierson: Illinois’ New AI-in-HR Rules Go Far Beyond Other States’ Restrictions
Extract from Brendan Pierson’s article “Illinois’ New AI-in-HR Rules Go Far Beyond Other States’ Restrictions” Illinois is enacting sweeping new rules on how employers can use artificial intelligence in hiring […] The post Brendan Pierson: Illinois’ New AI-in-HR Rules Go Far Beyond Other States’ Restrictions appeared first on ACEDS.
ACEDS Blog
💬 Top Human Resources Social Posts
Tweet by @Annettefranz
Don't Solve the Wrong Problem: How to Trace Outcomes Back to Culture. Most leaders diagnose outcomes at the symptom level. Here’s the methodology to go deeper and find what’s actually broken. https://t.co/DL4nvB37Xr https://t.co/bXVOswC3ci
Thread by @Askdrbrown
The pressure to hire fast comes from real places — investor expectations, customer demand, team burnout. But a bad hire doesn't just cost salary. They consume the attention of your best people, slow down teams that were moving well, and create friction that outlasts their tenure. One exceptional hire outperforms three mediocre ones. @AskDrBrown