Recalibrating Reward - Part 2: How Performance Should Really Be Measured
The article argues that performance should be defined by an organization’s ability to sustain itself, not merely by measurable outcomes. It highlights how current reward systems prioritize visible outputs, ignoring the underlying behaviours that enable long‑term capability. The piece explains why values often fail to shape performance because they lack concrete evaluation criteria. It calls for a redesign of performance measurement to embed sustainable behaviours.
Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Traditional employee assistance programs are used by only 1‑3% of workers, prompting a surge in AI‑powered EAP solutions that promise higher engagement and faster care. Providers such as Spring Health, Kyan Health, Lyra Health, Modern Health, Unmind, Wysa and Yuna...
Why Meaning and Growth Matter in an Engineering Workplace
MBP was named Engineering.com’s Top Workplace for Engineers 2026, highlighting its strong reputation among engineering talent. The firm emphasizes meaningful project work across sectors such as infrastructure, education, and life sciences, giving engineers a tangible impact on long‑term assets. Career...
What China’s AI Push Can Teach Africa About the Future of Labor
China’s 2026 Two Sessions outlined an "intelligent economy" that blends AI, robotics, and green energy while targeting 4.5‑5% growth and 12 million new urban jobs. The government acknowledges AI will both displace and create work, noting a mismatch where factories lack...
Target Seeks to Tighten Dress Code in Growth Push
Target will enforce a new summer dress code—denim or khakis with plain red shirts—aimed at projecting a consistent brand image as part of its turnaround under CEO Michael Fiddelke. The policy arrives after 13 straight quarters of flat or declining...
Growing Together: Why Offices in Singapore Are Farming Their Way to Better Culture
Singapore‑based Grobrix installs subscription‑based, soil‑free edible green walls in office spaces, turning sterile cubicles into interactive farms. A client survey of over 500 employees showed 93% felt the farms strengthened workplace community and 97% said they fostered a sustainability mindset....
Stop Trying to Replicate a Single Star Performer
Recent research revisits Microsoft’s 2012 stack‑ranking fiasco, showing that fixing a single star performer stifles knowledge recombination. A computational model reveals two failure modes—overshooting and frozen targets—when top‑performer signals remain static for a review cycle. The authors propose a live‑target...
Beyond Compliance: A Strategic HR Framework for Employee Data Trust
The article argues that HR’s expanding use of AI, workforce monitoring and data‑driven decision‑making turns employee data into a strategic leadership issue, not just a compliance checkbox. It stresses that mishandling data erodes trust, fairness, culture and corporate credibility. To...
Beyond Compliance: A Strategic HR Framework for Employee Data Trust
HR leaders are confronting a strategic dilemma as AI, monitoring tools, and data‑driven decision‑making expand the scope of employee data. The rise of automated hiring screens threatens to marginalize "hidden workers" and erode fairness, prompting regulators such as New York...
The AI Training Mistake that Could Turn Job Hugging to Job Hopping
A new HR report warns that a common AI‑training mistake could push AI‑fluent employees to leave their current roles, turning the current trend of "job hugging" into "job hopping." While mass layoffs have encouraged workers to stay put despite low...
The AI Training Mistake that Could Turn Job Hugging to Job Hopping
New University of Phoenix research of 5,000 U.S. employees and 1,000 employers reveals that AI‑fluent workers are gaining confidence and eyeing career moves despite overall low turnover. About three‑quarters of AI users report higher confidence, and over 80% say the...
8 Leadership Strategies From Top Performers
The article outlines eight leadership strategies drawn from top CEOs, emphasizing mission alignment, bottom‑up input, continuous feedback, purposeful turnover, risk‑taking, diversity, effective delegation, and conflict management. It cites data such as only 40% of employees understanding their company’s mission and...
Malaysia’s MIDA and MARA Partner to Strengthen Industry Talent Pipeline and Local Supply Chains
Malaysia’s Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) signed a partnership on May 4, 2026 to create a demand‑driven talent pipeline and boost local supplier participation in multinational supply chains. The core of the deal is the PRIME...
KNEX Launches AI Agent Pack for PeopleSoft to Simplify HR Processes and Enhance Employee Experience
KNEX Technology, an Oracle partner, unveiled its AI Agent Pack for PeopleSoft, delivering three domain‑specific agents that translate benefits, payslips and leave balances into conversational, plain‑language explanations. The agents embed directly into existing PeopleSoft HR modules, eliminating the need for...
DOL Officials Tell Congress that Mental Health Carveouts Can Cause Employer Parity Stress
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) warned Congress that many employers using separate carveout vendors for mental health and medical benefits fail to verify that the two benefit streams are truly comparable, violating the Mental Health Parity...
MSI Senior Vice President of HR Joins SHRM Executive Council to Help Shape the Future of Workforce Strategy
MSI senior vice president of human resources, Christopher Courneen, has been appointed to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Executive Council. The council, composed of senior CHROs and academics, advises SHRM on talent, risk, culture, and performance, shaping its...
JobNet Group Launches Advanced AI-Powered Job Description Generator to Transform Hiring Efficiency
JobNet Group, the leading digital recruitment platform in Myanmar and Cambodia, has unveiled an AI‑powered Job Description Generator. The tool lets employers input basic details—title, location, experience level—and instantly produces professional, structured postings. It operates in five languages (Myanmar, Khmer,...
Meta’s Month of Layoff Anxiety: ‘Morale Is Going to Dip’
Meta announced on May 20 it will cut roughly 8,000 jobs, about 10 % of its workforce, intensifying the tech‑sector layoff trend. The announcement creates weeks of uncertainty, which HR experts say will depress morale and productivity before any actual terminations occur....
Inside the Mind of a Future-Ready HR Leader: Vidya Munirathnam of Lowe’s India
Vidya Munirathnam, VP of Human Resources at Lowe’s India, is redefining the function to be a strategic growth engine rather than a policy enforcer. She champions internal mobility, on‑the‑job upskilling and a learning ecosystem that aligns with AI‑driven work. Decisions...
Language Learning Benefits Are a Must for Gen Z Talent
Language learning is evolving from a hobby into a strategic career mobility tool for Gen Z. Preply’s data shows 90% of Gen Z have collaborated with colleagues who speak a different first language, and 26% prioritize career advancement as their main motivation...
How Whatnot Goes Beyond Dogfooding to Instill a Consumer Focus
Whatnot, the live‑shopping platform launched in 2019, mandates that all 1,000+ employees buy, sell, and handle support tickets on the app each quarter, receiving $150 in credits for purchases. This rigorous dogfooding policy is tied to performance reviews, ensuring staff...
Express Delegation Still Means What It Says: Sixth Circuit Upholds DOL Home Care Rule After Loper Bright
On April 1 2026 the Sixth Circuit upheld the Department of Labor’s 2013 rule that requires third‑party home‑care agencies to pay overtime, even for live‑in caregivers caring for family members. The court ruled that Congress’s express delegation of authority to the DOL...
On the Move: Actum Adds Beck
Actum has hired former Trump 2024 campaign and Department of Energy transition team member Andy Beck as senior managing director in Washington, D.C., bringing deep federal‑policy experience to its consulting practice. Beck will advise clients on sectors where government funding...
SIS Plans Massive Hiring Push, Eyes 5 Lakh Workforce by 2030
SIS, a leading private security firm, plans to expand its workforce from 3.46 lakh to 5 lakh employees by 2030, adding roughly 1.54 lakh new hires. The growth targets heightened demand in healthcare, manufacturing, construction and e‑commerce logistics. Simplified Indian labour codes...
The CEE Startup Superpower: Cultural Weakness Becomes Competitive Edge
At the Startup Moldova Summit 2026, cultural expert Jaïr Halevi warned Central and Eastern European founders that neglecting company culture is a strategic blind spot. He likened culture to a tennis serve—founders control it while external market forces remain unpredictable....
When the CEO Leaves, What Happens Next?
New research from Robert Walters shows only 14% of UK firms have formal succession plans. CEO turnover is accelerating, with tech CEOs leaving 50% faster than the six‑year average and record resignations in 2022. 39% of organisations lack any plan,...
Payroll Errors Don’t Stay in Payroll
Payroll errors extend beyond a simple operational glitch, directly affecting employees’ financial stability and trust in their employer. A PayrollOrg survey found 49.1 % of workers would struggle to meet obligations after a late paycheck, while the BLS reports a 1.2 %...
Global Payroll Is a Strategic Problem. AI Is Finally Solving It.
Global payroll has long been treated as a fragmented, operational chore, relying on a patchwork of local vendors and costly reconciliation. Recent AI advances shift payroll from assistance to autonomous execution, delivering "zero‑click" processing that cuts workforce‑management expenses by roughly...
University of Michigan, Virginia Tech Among Colleges Seeking New Leaders
April 2026 saw a wave of leadership changes across U.S. higher education, including the University of Michigan pausing its presidential search after Kent Syverud disclosed a brain‑cancer diagnosis and Virginia Tech President Tim Sands announcing retirement amid political controversy. The University of Wyoming selected...
Berkshire Shareholders Reject Workforce Oversight Proposal, Back Leadership and Pay Plans
Berkshire Hathaway shareholders voted down a proposal demanding a detailed workforce‑oversight report, reaffirming the conglomerate’s decentralized management of its roughly 387,000 employees across 200 subsidiaries. The board, including Warren Buffett and Greg Abel, was fully re‑elected, and investors approved the...
MTN Loses Labour Bid over ‘Unremorseful’ Ex-Employee
MTN's attempt to appeal a Labour Court decision was rejected. The court dismissed MTN's argument that an employee who shows no remorse cannot be reinstated, noting the precedent cited (De Beers) was not applicable. The appeal concerned a November 2025 ruling...
National HR Policy, Post-Maternity Leave Allowance, and More: Malaysia's New Measures to Support Workers
Malaysia's Ministry of Human Resources endorsed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's Labour Day announcements, unveiling the first National Human Resources Policy 2026‑2035 to coordinate skills, labour and social security. The government introduced a post‑maternity leave allowance of up to 30 extra...
Zensai Introduces Human Success Agent for Microsoft Agent 365, Redefining AI-Driven Learning and Human Success in the Flow of Work
Zensai announced the general availability of its Human Success Agent, a partner AI agent built on Microsoft Agent 365. The solution embeds real‑time workforce performance, engagement and skill data directly into Microsoft 365 apps, leveraging Microsoft Entra for secure governance....
Aldi Employees in Brussels Went on Strike on Saturday
Aldi faced a fresh wave of strikes in the Brussels‑Halle‑Vilvoorde region on Saturday, with 22 of its 26 stores shutting down. Workers, represented by Setca and CNE, protested the retailer’s plan to open supermarkets on Sundays, fearing loss of their...
ABC Staff Accept Enterprise Agreement After Pay Dispute Strike
ABC staff voted overwhelmingly to accept a new enterprise agreement, ending a 24‑hour strike that was the broadcaster’s first in two decades. More than 90% of participants backed a 10.5% pay rise over three years, with back‑pay to October 2025,...
Alstom Launched a Program to Hire People with Disabilities
Alstom has launched its first long‑term internship program, ASPIRE, to hire people with learning disabilities at its Derby Litchurch Lane plant. The interns will work on the £60 million (≈ $76 million) CrossCountry Voyager train modernization project, refurbishing 312 carriages. The program partners...
Why SWIFT Is Too Slow for Your Global Workforce?
Traditional SWIFT‑based payroll can take five business days as payments bounce through multiple correspondent banks, incurring fees and eroding the amount received. Companies are turning to regulated stablecoins for payroll settlement, allowing funds to move directly on a blockchain in...
What Is Resume Fraud (and How to Detect It)?
Resume fraud has evolved from simple embellishments to AI‑generated, fully fabricated work histories that can be produced in seconds. Around 70% of workers admit to lying on their resumes, and 60% of those candidates still secure jobs, driving an estimated...
Samsung Biologics Estimates US$100 Million Strike Loss as Unions Press Demands
Samsung Biologics said the ongoing strike has already cost about $130 million, reflecting a partial disruption to its biologics production lines. Roughly half of its 2,861‑strong workforce has been on strike since April 28, demanding a 9.3% wage increase and a profit‑share...
Faces of HR: Josh Skorupa on Knowing when to Pivot – or Kill – AI-Enabled Work that Creates No Value
Josh Skorupa, Head of Digital Transformation & Capability at Singapore’s GovTech, says AI is a foundational infrastructure, not a strategy. He urges leaders to focus on clear business outcomes and to halt AI projects that deliver no value. Skorupa’s experience...
Candidate Fraud: The Warning Signs HR Should Watch Out For
AI tools are enabling sophisticated candidate fraud, with Gartner predicting one in four applicants will be fake by 2028. HR leaders now confront coordinated fake submissions that include synthetic identities, deep‑fake video, and polished portfolios. Experts advise deploying automated verification...
Pros and Cons of a “Work-Friend Culture”
The article reflects on 25 years of workplace experience to weigh the pros and cons of a "work‑friend" culture. It recounts a long‑term colleague who became a boss and shifted from supportive to competitive, illustrating the risk of overly personal...
Understanding the Science Behind AI-Based Hiring Assessments
HireVue introduced Assessment Builder, an AI‑powered platform that lets recruiters quickly create scientifically validated hiring assessments for any role, from high‑volume positions to niche executive jobs. The tool parses job descriptions, generates role‑specific tests, and offers adjustable AI involvement, including...
Ciklum India Has Appointed Snigdha Joglekar as Head of HR
Ciklum India, a global digital solutions provider, has appointed Snijdha Joglekar as its new head of human resources. Joglekar arrives after a six‑year tenure at EXL and a 15‑year career that includes senior HR roles at Calsoft, Parkar Consulting, SELA...
Recruiters Turn to AI in Quest to Find the Perfect Connection
Recruiters are grappling with an “AI doom loop” as generative AI floods hiring pipelines with double the applications per job since 2022. While AI tools help automate résumé drafting, screening and even interview stages, they also dilute signal quality, making...
More Managers Agree that AI Can Replace Employees, Report Finds
A Beautiful.ai report shows 35% of managers now believe replacing employees with AI tools is good for their companies, up from 23% a year earlier. The survey also found 42% think AI could be financially beneficial by replacing many workers,...
Hong Kong Raises Statutory Minimum Wage to HK$43.1 per Hour Effective 1 May 2026
Hong Kong will raise its statutory minimum wage to HK$43.1 per hour (about $5.5 USD) on 1 May 2026, up from HK$42.1. The new rate applies to all employment categories, including part‑time staff and workers with disabilities who can opt for a...
Why Maternity Leave Is an Investment in Our Future
Indonesia’s Law No. 4 of 2024 expands statutory maternity leave to three months, with extensions up to six months for medical reasons, but field research shows most women only receive the minimum. Financial strain, unclear compensation and job‑security fears push many...
Bharat Intelligence’s Phala Platform Helps Tribals Get Work
Bharat Intelligence’s Phala platform has formalised labour for 2,000 tribal workers across 10,000 acres of vineyards in Nashik, delivering an average net daily income of roughly $6. The agritech startup, co‑owned by over 22,500 farmers, matches skilled workers with time‑sensitive...
EB-2 NIW Case Study: Doctor From Uruguay Approved to Improve Healthcare Access Through Telemedicine
Colombo & Hurd secured an EB‑2 National Interest Waiver for a Uruguayan physician whose AI‑driven telemedicine platform aims to close care gaps in underserved U.S. regions. USCIS initially issued an RFE questioning the national impact, but the attorney reorganized existing evidence to...