Seeing High Turnover for Supply Chain Jobs? Start by Fixing Your Hiring Process
Supply chain turnover is soaring—26‑28% in manufacturing and nearly 49% in warehousing—well above the national average. The article argues that most early exits stem from hiring missteps rather than post‑hire programs. Wrong skills, cultural misfit, and unrealistic job expectations create a cycle of urgency, bad hires, and further turnover. By tightening role definition, aligning stakeholders, and targeting passive talent, companies can cut early attrition and lower replacement costs.
Civil Servants to Get 3.5% Pay Rise
The UK Cabinet Office has set a 3.5% pay uplift for civil servants in the 2026‑27 pay remit, giving departments flexibility to allocate the increase based on workforce needs. Unions welcomed the headline rise but criticised the absence of a...
Behind the Idea: Payfit
PayFit, a European SaaS payroll and HR platform, now employs over 700 staff across the UK, France and Spain and supports more than 20,000 SMEs, processing payroll for roughly 250,000 employees. Founded in 2015 to replace manual, Excel‑based payroll, the...
Forget Recruiting: Why Your HR Team Needs to Master the Art of ‘Seduction’ to Win Top Talent in 2026
HR teams are being urged to move beyond traditional recruiting and adopt a “seduction” mindset to win talent that is clinging to current jobs amid economic uncertainty and AI‑driven disruption. At a recent SHRM event, Jim D’Amico highlighted the need...
Humanly Raises $25M Series B to Help Companies Hire Faster, Retain, and Stay Fully Staffed
Humanly announced a $25 million Series B round led by SEEK Investments, Drive Capital, MassMutual Catalyst Fund and Zeal Capital Partners. The Seattle‑based AI hiring platform engages more than 250,000 candidates each month and has conducted over five million interviews, delivering up...
Cara Joins Microsoft Teams: Structured Interviews Without Switching Apps
SocialTalent’s AI hiring assistant Cara now lives natively inside Microsoft Teams, letting interviewers pull up interview plans, questions, scoring rubrics and real‑time transcription in a single pane. The integration automatically captures candidate statements, maps them to evaluation criteria, and generates...
Talent Acquisition Leader Launches Career Capital. An AI-Powered Platform to Help Professionals Document and Leverage Workplace Achievements
Career Capital, founded by senior talent‑acquisition executive Orlando Haynes, launched an AI‑powered platform that lets professionals capture, quantify, and showcase workplace achievements in real time. The service offers AI‑guided prompts, impact‑focused workflows, and automatically generated career narratives, all housed in...
Why Local Market Expertise Matters More Than Ever in Digital Hiring: What You Might Not Know
Local market expertise is becoming a decisive factor in digital hiring as firms recognize that technology alone cannot replace regional knowledge. Companies that understand local talent ecosystems see lower operating costs, higher acceptance rates, and stronger retention, while misaligned location...
The $10 Trillion Problem: Why Employee Disengagement Is Skyrocketing and What It’s Costing Your Business
Gallup’s 2025 State of the Global Workplace shows employee engagement slipping to a historic low of 20%, with 80% of workers worldwide reporting disengagement. The decline translates into an estimated $10 trillion in annual productivity losses, and each percentage‑point drop adds...
Feds, Home Care Company Eye $3M Deal to End Overtime, Misclassification Claims
Amazing Care Home Healthcare Services agreed to a $3 million settlement to resolve Department of Labor claims that it misclassified 284 workers as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime. The DOL investigation estimated roughly $6 million in unpaid overtime owed to...
Millions Want to Work. Workforce Systems Were Never Built for Them.
Enabled Talent unveiled the Workforce Inclusion Network (WIN), an AI‑powered platform that unifies employers, universities, governments and underserved talent into a single, accessibility‑first system. The solution lets job seekers create one verified profile that captures credentials, work preferences and accommodation...
Cangrade Expands UKG Partnership, Putting Predictive Hiring Within Reach for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
Cangrade announced an expanded partnership with UKG, adding its AI‑driven candidate screening to UKG Ready, the HCM suite aimed at small and mid‑sized businesses. The integration lets employers embed predictive performance insights directly into existing HR, payroll and talent workflows,...
How to Prevent Employee Burnout: The Essentials
Employee burnout is a growing concern for CHROs, driven in part by the always‑on expectations of digital tools. The article highlights how technology can both exacerbate stress—through constant video calls and messaging—and serve as a mitigation tool when used wisely....
3 Questions That Signal You’re in the Wrong Leadership Role (and What They Actually Reveal)
The article outlines three self‑assessment questions that help leaders determine whether their current role fits their strengths. It explains that misalignment often shows up as excessive effort, high performance without fulfillment, or a mismatch between desired leadership style and actual...
Cornerstone Launches Cornerstone Workforce AI™, the Intelligence Platform for Workforce Readiness Built to Amplify Human Potential Exponentially with AI
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled Cornerstone Workforce AI™, an intelligence platform that fuses two decades of workforce data, a People Graph and a Skills Engine to deliver real‑time insights for talent strategy. The solution leverages AI‑driven Readiness Agents that automate skill‑gap analysis,...
TCS Clarifies Salary-Revision Framework Amid Employee Concerns over CTC Changes
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) clarified that its latest salary‑revision framework has not reduced any employee’s gross or take‑home pay. The changes, introduced during the FY26 appraisal cycle, adjust the composition of cost‑to‑company (CTC) to comply with India’s evolving labour codes....
How to Identify a Toxic Culture and 13 Ways to Fix It
Toxic workplace culture, once hidden, is now quantified by data showing millions of daily incivility incidents and a 10% employee exposure rate. Leaders who prioritize accountability over short‑term results risk burnout, disengagement, and costly turnover. Research from SHRM and MIT...
Analysis-Samsung's Deal with Union Hailed as a Victory as Bonuses Less Generous than SK Hynix's
Samsung Electronics reached a government‑mediated pay deal with its chip‑worker union, averting an 18‑day strike by 48,000 staff and sending the stock up 8.5% to a record high. The agreement gives all chip employees a cash bonus equal to 50%...
Faces of HR: How Brandon Roberts Is Rewriting the HR Playbook with Data
Brandon Roberts, ServiceNow’s SVP of Talent Strategy & Workforce Transformation, is championing a data‑first approach to human resources. He argues that blending analytics with empathy enables organizations to move beyond guesswork and make talent decisions that boost engagement and performance....
UK Risks Falling Behind in AI Hiring Revolution
A YouGov survey for HireRight shows UK HR leaders are markedly more cautious about AI in recruitment than peers in India, Brazil, Singapore and other markets. Only 18% of UK respondents expect AI to increase hiring volumes by 2026, compared...
If You Want Your Employees to Embrace AI, You Need to Let Them Have a Say in How It's Used
Trust in American workplaces is eroding, with the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer showing 70% of people reluctant to trust those with different values. A parallel ADP survey reveals only 22% of workers feel their jobs are safe from AI‑driven cuts,...
Case Study | From Prison Leavers to Apprenticeships - Inside Sodexo's Employer of the Year Win
Sodexo has woven social impact into its core strategy, using inclusion to boost performance and culture. By mapping social‑mobility cold spots across the UK, the company tailors recruitment and apprenticeship programmes to underserved areas. Its "Starting Fresh" initiative partners with...
Beyond Borders: Why the EU Pay Directive Matters for UK-Based HR (Webinar)
The EU Pay Transparency Directive, which must be transposed into national law by 7 June 2026, mandates pay‑range disclosures, employee pay‑comparison rights, gender‑pay‑gap reporting and joint assessments. Personnel Today hosted a free 60‑minute webinar with Remote’s global payroll experts to explain how...
Marks & Spencer Scraps All Bonuses in Wake of Cyber Attack
Marks & Spencer announced that bonuses for its entire 63,000‑strong workforce, including CEO Stuart Machin and chairman Archie Norman, have been scrapped after a 2025 cyber‑attack erased roughly a third of annual profit. The breach forced a 28.8% drop in...
India's Marketing Sector Sees Sharp Rise in Fresher Hiring, Driven by AI and Analytics Roles: Report
India's marketing and advertising sector is witnessing a dramatic surge in entry‑level hiring, with fresher hiring intent climbing to 62% in the first half of 2026, up from just 11% a year earlier. The rise is driven by a shift...
22 Emerging Leaders Selected for Advancing Beef Leaders Program
The Advancing Beef Leaders (ABL) Foundation unveiled its 2026/27 cohort, selecting 22 emerging leaders from Queensland, the Northern Territory, northern New South Wales and northern Western Australia. The 12‑month leadership development program will launch in Darwin in June, coinciding with...
Temus Ramps up AI Hiring and Launches Foundry for Health and Finance
Temus announced the launch of an AI Foundry in Singapore, backed by Digital Industry Singapore, to hire and develop 50 AI professionals. The initiative aims to deliver production‑grade AI accelerators, governance frameworks, and enterprise solutions for precision health and financial...
The Real Threat to Your AI Rollout Isn’t Technology; It Is Middle Management
AI technology is advancing faster than most companies can integrate it, and the biggest obstacle is not the tech itself but middle management. Executives often expect managers to champion AI adoption, yet many resist due to uncertainty, misaligned incentives, and...
Burnout and AI: New Tech without Supports Risky for Employers
A recent Robert Half Canada survey shows Canadian worker burnout has jumped to 62%, with 37% attributing heightened pressure to AI tools. Employment lawyers warn that employers are setting unrealistic productivity expectations, as AI augments speed but still requires human...
The True Cost of a Failed International Relocation for Global Mobility Teams
International relocations are often treated as procedural tasks, but failures can cost firms two to three times an employee’s salary and trigger extensive hidden losses. The article highlights how family stability, housing scarcity, and inadequate readiness assessments turn a logistical...
Amazon’s Pay for 6 Health Tech Jobs
Amazon is actively hiring six health‑tech professionals, offering senior‑level salaries that top $260,000 for AI engineers and exceed $200,000 for leadership roles. The positions span healthcare AI development, global account management, solutions architecture, pharmacy provider partnerships, and cybersecurity on both...
A ‘Proudly Autistic’ Workplace Expert Says Putting Neurodivergent Employees in a Typical Office Is Like Dropping a Polar Bear in...
Clinical psychologist Daniel Wendler, a self‑identified autistic workplace advocate, warned that placing neurodivergent employees in conventional open‑plan offices is akin to dropping a polar bear in Austin’s heat. He noted that roughly 20% of U.S. adults are neurodivergent, yet only...
Pay Transparency Is Exposing a Bigger Problem: Most Companies Can’t Explain Why They Pay What They Pay
At Fortune’s Workplace Innovation Summit, Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio and creator Hannah Williams warned that many firms can publish salaries but cannot justify them, undermining pay‑transparency goals. They highlighted a gap between carefully crafted compensation policies and the chaotic, ungoverned...
An Industry Maverick's Latest Plan to Draw Advisors From the Giants
Independent Financial Partners (IFP) unveiled "Project 3.14," a compensation plan that promises to share 40 % of any future sale or private‑equity recapitalization with its advisors. The firm, which now manages $19.5 billion for 279 advisors, aims to trigger a transaction by 2036...
Here’s How Meta Is Justifying Its Layoffs to Thousands of Employees
Meta announced a company‑wide layoff affecting roughly 7,800 employees, about 10% of its 78,000‑person workforce. The memo cited a need to run more efficiently and to offset other investments, without detailing specific cost targets. The cuts follow a recent shift...
Creator Economy Job Radar – May 19, 2026 – TikTok, JPMorganChase, and Coty Expand Influencer Divisions, Boston Celtics Seeking Creator...
The latest Creator Economy Job Radar shows a wave of new hires across tech, finance, beauty and sports, with TikTok, JPMorgan Chase and Coty each expanding their influencer divisions. TikTok is offering a Creator Strategy and Partnership Manager role in Los Angeles...
HR Tech Bytes: Humanforce, Cangrade
Humanforce unveiled Smart Scheduling, an AI‑driven rostering tool that can cut schedule‑building time by up to 70% and reduce labor costs around 15% by aligning shifts with forecasted demand. The platform lets frontline workers manage availability, accept shift offers, and...
Exclusive: Juicebox Autonomous Recruiting Agents Help Source Candidates Proactively
Juicebox App Inc. unveiled Juicebox Agents, an autonomous AI recruiting suite that continuously searches public data sources to identify and engage candidates across multiple roles. Early adopters report up to a five‑fold boost in recruiter efficiency and a 50% cut...
GoTyme Heats up South Africa’s Fintech Talent War with Employee Ownership Plan
GoTyme Bank, the South African digital bank backed by Patrice Motsepe, has introduced a Long‑Term Incentive Programme (LTIP) that grants equity to employees with more than six months’ tenure. The move follows a broader South African fintech shift toward employee...
Immigration Enforcement Concerns Expose Credibility Gap for Employers
A Brightmine survey of 1,000 U.S. adults reveals a credibility gap between employee expectations and employer actions on immigration enforcement. While 45% of workers trust their companies to handle enforcement correctly, 46% do not, and only about one‑in‑five have received...
When Layoffs Become a Safety Risk, HR Is the First Line of Defense
Since January, more than 1,600 companies have announced mass layoffs, creating a wave of workforce reductions across industries. While analysts focus on the macro‑economic drivers, the article highlights a less‑examined danger: the safety risk that arises when layoff news is...
Elev8on Management Debuts AI-Powered American Talent Tool St8r In Cannes
Elev8on Management unveiled its AI‑driven talent assessment platform St8r at Cannes, rebranding from Pulse after OpenAI seized the original domain. The tool quantifies the commercial appeal of U.S. actors across individual European markets, breaking scores into transparent sub‑components and linking...
Bring It to Them | What Five CPOs Actually Say About Workforce Comms
Chief People Officers at the World Economic Forum, B&Q, and Radisson Hotel Group shared how they reshape workforce communications. The WEF CHRO deliberately reduced empathy during a reputational crisis, opting for clear, data‑driven direction. B&Q’s People Director highlighted that trust...
Pregnancy Discrimination Claims Rise 85% as Woman Brings Claim.
Pregnancy discrimination claims in the UK surged 85% year‑on‑year, reaching 448 cases in the third quarter of 2025/26 after 387 in the prior quarter. More than 500,000 employment‑tribunal claims remain outstanding, the highest level on record. A recent case involves...
The Best Employee Verification Solutions Helping Recruiters Hire Faster in 2026
Employment verification remains the slowest step between offer acceptance and day one, prompting a surge in automated solutions. The global background‑check software market, valued at $5.12 billion in 2025, is projected to hit $12.04 billion by 2034, driven by AI‑powered platforms that...
15 Australian Companies Switched to a Four-Day Work Week. It Went Surprisingly Well
A new study published in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications examined 15 Australian firms that adopted the 100:80:100 four‑day work week—full pay for 80% of hours while maintaining output. Fourteen of the companies kept the model, reporting no productivity...
Why StanChart’s 'Lower-Value Human' Layoffs Became a PR Problem, Not Just a Job Cuts Announcement
Standard Chartered announced it will eliminate more than 15% of its corporate workforce—about 7,000 jobs—by 2030, citing AI‑driven automation. CEO Bill Winters framed the move as replacing "lower‑value human capital" with financial capital, a phrasing that ignited criticism from communications...
Psychological Safety and the Art of Purging
The article argues that psychological safety is rooted in credibility, not just feel‑good initiatives. Teams only outperform when members can speak honestly, admit mistakes, and rely on each other without fear. The author introduces "purging" – a deliberate process of...
Overlapping Sick Leave Law Provisions: Guidance for What Applies
Employers are grappling with how multiple sick‑leave statutes—federal, state and local—interact when they overlap. The SHRM guidance, authored by Sebastian Chilco and Stephanie Mills‑Gallan, outlines a decision‑making framework for determining which law applies in a given situation. It emphasizes assessing...
As Doctor Shortage Rages On, Physician Assistant Pay Hits $140,000
The American Academy of Physician Associates reports median total compensation for physician assistants (PAs) rose 4.5% to $140,000 in 2025, up from $134,000 in 2024, with 58% receiving a median bonus of $6,000. The National Commission on Certification of Physician...