Summer Staffing Is No Longer Seasonal: Why Hoteliers Need a New Playbook for Peak Travel Demand - By Brendan McCoy
Hotel operators are abandoning the traditional seasonal hiring model as year‑round labor shortages and faster‑moving candidates reshape the industry. Newport Hospitality Group reports that candidates now prioritize flexibility, transparent communication, and culture over simple compensation, forcing hotels to plan staffing earlier and invest in leadership visibility. The article outlines how expanding talent pipelines, cross‑training, and technology can mitigate turnover, while emphasizing that seasonal roles must be treated as long‑term assets to sustain guest experience during peak demand.
Big Colleges NYU, UGA, Villanova, and K-12 Seattle & Belleville Schools Seek Experience and Key Knowledge
A wave of senior facilities‑management openings is sweeping major universities—including NYU, Villanova, UGA, and Saddleback College—and K‑12 districts such as Seattle Public Schools and Belleville. The positions stress technology leadership, AI‑enabled sustainability, and integration of ERP and analytics platforms. Employers...
Award-Winning HR Software Vendor HiBob Named an ISG 2026 Vendor of Excellence for Human Capital Management (HCM) Platforms
HiBob, the maker of the Bob people‑management platform, has been named an ISG Vendor of Excellence for its Human Capital Management (HCM) Platform for 2026. The ISG award assesses product innovation, market presence, user experience and delivered value, and HiBob...
Chronus Unveils Rumi, the First AI Mentor Designed to Scale and Enhance Human Mentorship
Chronus introduced Rumi, the first AI‑driven mentor, at ATD 2026, positioning it as a companion to human mentors. Powered by Chronus’s two‑decade‑long Mentoring Intelligence, Rumi delivers real‑time guidance, role‑play practice, and reflective prompts within tools like Slack, ChatGPT and Claude....
Rivermate Named in Forbes México as a Leading EOR Solution for Hiring Talent in Spain Without a Legal Entity
Rivermate was highlighted by Forbes México as a leading Employer of Record (EOR) provider for companies seeking to hire talent in Spain without establishing a local legal entity. The article explains how the EOR model streamlines access to Spain’s skilled...
Halfords Opens Dunstable Training Centre to Boost Apprenticeships
Halfords has opened a 4,000‑square‑foot training centre in Dunstable to accelerate its apprenticeship programme, which has grown from about 30 participants in 2022 to roughly 300 across the UK. The facility can train over 500 apprentices and technical staff annually,...
How Construction Owners Should Evaluate Executive Hires
Construction owners face a high‑stakes decision when selecting a top‑level executive, as the hire will dictate culture, operational standards, and long‑term growth. Unlike typical executive searches, the role demands personal alignment with the owner’s relentless work ethic and lifestyle. Successful...
Announcing the WISE AI Platform for an Agentic Digital Workforce
Paychex unveiled Workforce Intelligence Strengthened by Expertise (WISE), an agentic AI platform that embeds autonomous digital workers across its Paychex Flex, Paycor and SurePayroll solutions. Leveraging five decades of payroll and HR data, WISE combines context‑aware intelligence, multi‑channel assistants and...
How Layoffs Hurt All of Us—And What Companies Can Do Instead
Tech firms have dismissed over 245,000 workers in 2025, adding 131,504 layoffs this year, sparking debate over the true financial value of workforce cuts. Peer‑reviewed research consistently shows that layoffs rarely deliver sustained profit gains and often depress stock performance,...
Chicago Refines Paid Leave Rules Ahead of June 1 Effective Date
Chicago’s Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance will enforce revised rules on June 1, 2026. The updates clarify that informal childcare arrangements count as a “place of care,” allow employers to discipline patterned leave misuse, and introduce a joint‑employer...
Match2 Joins Phenom Marketplace
Match2 announced its integration with the Phenom Marketplace, bringing its Universal Candidate Profile™, Direct Talent Network™, and Talent Connector™ platform to thousands of Phenom‑powered employers. The new Connect With™ model creates a persistent, consent‑based relationship between candidates and employers, allowing a...
Disconnected Talent Data: A 3% Cost to Payroll
A Korn Ferry 2026 Global Talent Analytics Survey finds fragmented talent data costs companies at least 3% of payroll. Ninety‑nine percent of leaders say data fragmentation hurts financial performance, and more than 80% estimate the impact is three percent or...
How Identity Fraud Hits TA
Identity fraud is increasingly slipping through talent‑acquisition funnels, turning hiring processes into a national‑security vulnerability. ID.me’s Taylor Liggett explains how counterfeit credentials and synthetic identities evade traditional background checks, exposing companies to legal and reputational risk. He outlines practical steps—biometric verification,...
New HR Tech From Caliber, Veritone
Caliber unveiled Talent 360, a real‑time talent intelligence platform that continuously measures employer brand perception across more than 40 markets and benchmarks it against thousands of peers. The solution combines market‑wide syndicated data with client‑specific research, giving CHROs and talent teams...
AI Tools Bring Transparency to Benefits
Artificial intelligence is being deployed to expose hidden inefficiencies in employee benefit plans, giving employers and brokers clearer pricing and actionable insights. Companies such as Collective Health, Angle Health and Reclaim Health illustrate how AI can parse claims data, answer...
International Hiring Is Easier than Ever. Compliance? Not so Much
Over the past decade, remote‑work infrastructure and global payroll platforms have made hiring talent in more than 20 countries virtually frictionless. Yet the legal landscape has not kept pace; employment classification, minimum‑wage rules, benefits and termination standards differ sharply across...
Why Are SA Engagement Initiatives Failing & What Leaders Must ‘Unlearn’
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement has slipped to its lowest point since 2020, with manager engagement tumbling from 30% in 2023 to just 22% in 2025. Companies are pouring more initiatives, programs, and technology into...
AI Bidding Wars: The Talent Making a Fortune as Big Tech Firms Fight It Out
The AI talent market has become a high‑stakes arena, with only a few hundred engineers capable of building frontier models at scale. Big Tech giants such as Meta, Google, and emerging startups are offering nine‑figure salaries and massive equity grants...
Internal Memo Suggests Meta Will Lay Off 10% of Its Employees, with a Further 10% Set to Be Transferred to...
Meta is preparing to lay off 10% of its global workforce, with an additional 10% of employees slated for internal transfers to AI‑centric groups such as Applied AI Engineering and the Agent Transformation Accelerator. The memo, seen by Reuters, emphasizes...
HR Transformation for Line Managers: A Six-Month Enablement Framework
Modern HR operating models now expect line managers to act as People Process Owners rather than mere task brokers. A new six‑month enablement framework outlines a step‑by‑step transition, introducing core competencies and measurable KPIs that can be rolled out without...
Case Study | How Serco Unlocked Hidden Female Talent with a Women-Only Apprenticeship
Serco, a multinational services firm, expanded its apprenticeship portfolio with two women‑only schemes: the leadership‑focused Empower program and the data‑centric Innovate apprenticeship. Both initiatives are delivered in partnership with Baltic Apprenticeships and target existing staff rather than external candidates. By...
How to Optimize Your Candidate Journey: Reduce Drop-Off at Every Stage
Optimizing the candidate journey reduces friction that drives drop‑off at every hiring stage. Tellent’s State of Hiring report shows cycles longer than 40 days generate a 12% increase in candidate loss, most of which stems from communication gaps and slow...
How to Hire the Right Staff When Starting a Private Medical Practice
Opening a private medical practice hinges on more than location and equipment; early staff choices shape patient experience, workflow efficiency, and revenue cycle health. Rushed hiring often leads to scheduling chaos, billing errors, and costly turnover, with replacement expenses running...
Work Perks | Pay Still Matters, but Are Benefits Becoming the Real Retention Battleground?
New research from iSolved’s Voice of the Workforce 2026 shows that while salary remains the top driver for job changes, benefits are rapidly emerging as a critical retention lever. Among employees who applied for a new role, 45% cited better...
The Cost of Ghosting: How Broken Hiring Processes Ruin Your Employer Brand
A Fortune survey finds that more than 53% of job seekers were ghosted by employers in the past year, highlighting a systemic breakdown in recruitment. Overwhelmed recruiters and high‑volume hiring pipelines cause delayed communication, eroding the employer brand promise. Candidates...
The Trade Desk’s Jeff Green Made More Than Any Other Adtech CEO Last Year
Jeff Green, CEO of The Trade Desk, received $27.4 million in total compensation for 2025, the highest among publicly traded adtech CEOs. The figure, derived from Equilar’s regulatory filing dataset covering 22 adtech and agency‑holding companies, exceeds the median S&P 500 CEO...
At-Will Employment: The American HR Idea that Does Not Exist in India
At-will employment lets U.S. employers and employees end a relationship at any time without cause, barring discrimination exceptions. Indian labour law, by contrast, requires notice periods, severance and procedural safeguards, making the at‑will model legally untenable. Multinational firms and Silicon‑valley‑inspired...
Accountability: The Answer to Rising AI Workslop
Employers are being urged to tighten accountability for AI‑generated work after research showed 40% of employees have encountered low‑quality output, dubbed “workslop.” Experts argue the problem stems not from AI use itself but from vague expectations and missing quality controls....
Employees Seek Stronger Support for Financial Needs, Report Finds
A Morgan Stanley at Work survey shows 74% of employees want their employers to play a larger role in addressing personal financial troubles, while 84% reported facing budgeting, goal‑setting or retirement challenges in the past year. More than half (53%)...
Trends of Pay Transparency Laws and Salary History Bans Continue to Grow — New Laws Enacted in Virginia, Maine, and...
A wave of state pay‑transparency legislation continues with Virginia, Maine and Delaware joining the ranks. Virginia’s law, effective July 1, 2026, bans salary‑history questions and forces employers to disclose wage ranges for every posting. Maine, effective July 29, 2026, requires pay ranges on all...
Off the Clock, Out of Compliance? Managing Wage-and-Hour Risk in Remote Workforces
Employers with remote or hybrid staff face heightened wage‑and‑hour exposure under the FLSA. Untracked off‑the‑clock work, incorrect overtime calculations, and employee misclassification can generate significant liability. Adding to the risk, remote workers often span multiple states, each with its own...
Former Trader Joe's Worker Sues, Says Employer Ignored Injuries and Punished EEOC Filing
Vanessa Kempf, a former Trader Joe’s crew member, filed a federal lawsuit alleging race discrimination, disability discrimination, and retaliation after reporting a physical assault and requesting ADA accommodations. The complaint details a pattern of heightened scrutiny, a reprimand three days after...
Kansas Court Lets Wealth Manager Keep Suing Former Executive over Noncompete Breach
A Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed Creative Planning’s breach‑of‑contract and tortious‑interference claims against former executive Stephen Greco and his startup, rejecting his free‑speech defense under the state’s anti‑SLAPP law. The ruling confirms that non‑compete, confidentiality and non‑disparagement agreements remain enforceable...
New Health App Aims to Connect Benefits, Medical Records and Advice
HealthBook+ has launched an app that consolidates employee benefits information, personal medical records, and AI‑driven triage via its partner Paige. The platform targets the 85% of workers who struggle to understand their benefits and aims to streamline care decisions. Early...
Domain-Specific AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Workforce Management
Domain‑specific AI is reshaping workforce management by moving HR systems from static records to real‑time actions. Boomi’s integration platform is now embedded in UKG’s suite, allowing seamless data flow across payroll, scheduling and labor analytics. Executives highlight that payroll errors...
Hive Support Services Accelerates Digital People Transformation with Launch of WorkBee Platform
Hive Support Services has completed Phase One of its WorkBee rollout, an integrated HR, payroll and workforce management platform built on Dayforce. The system is now live in nine client organisations, delivering a unified, data‑driven people experience. Hive cites the...
New Research: 77% of Executives Say Managers Are Prepared to Guide AI Skills Development, While 91% of Employees Disagree
Acorn’s 2026 State of Learning for AI Fluency report surveyed over 1,200 professionals and found a stark gap between executive confidence and employee perception of AI readiness. While 77% of executives believe their managers can guide AI skill development, 91%...
SAS Daniels Offers Valued Insight on Employment Rights Act 2025
SAS Daniels, a Cheshire‑based law firm, is hosting a free online webinar on May 21 to demystify the Employment Rights Act 2025. The session follows a well‑attended in‑person briefing in Stockport and will cover the legislation’s core reforms, common misconceptions,...
Succession Planning: What Gets Missed When AI Takes All the Attention
HR leaders are fixated on AI adoption, leaving succession planning largely ignored. Only 21% of organizations have a formal succession plan, and 72% concentrate those plans solely on the C‑suite. A record 4.2 million Americans turned 65 in 2025, accelerating retirement‑driven...
Axonify Redefines Frontline Enablement with AI-Powered Platform to Deliver the Last Mile of Strategy
Axonify unveiled an AI‑enhanced Frontline Enablement Platform at the ATD 2026 conference, aiming to bridge the gap between learning and execution for frontline workers. The suite adds AI coaching, a conversational assistant, co‑creation tools, and automated rollout capabilities, all built...
Encore Global Team Launches to Help SMBs Scale with Structured Remote Hiring and Operational Support
Encore Global Team (EGT) launched today to help small and medium-sized businesses scale through structured remote hiring and operational support. The company offers executive‑led onboarding, workflow alignment, and continuous performance monitoring for remote professionals, primarily sourcing talent from the Philippines....
Corporate America Is Crushing Senior-Level Mothers. Here’s How They’re Coping
Senior‑level mothers are facing a perfect storm of intensified work demands and caregiving pressures, driving a wave of exits and burnout. In 2025, 42% of women who left the workforce cited caregiving, while 60% of senior women reported burnout versus...
Your AI Strategy Is only as Strong as the People Who Run It
Recent surveys reveal that a majority of large professional services firms are abandoning AI projects because their staff lack the necessary skills. Deloitte’s 2026 State of AI report confirms insufficient worker expertise as the biggest barrier to enterprise AI adoption....
Retail HR Central Review – Busy and Exciting Times for HR
The Retail HR Central 2026 conference in Birmingham highlighted the turbulence facing retail HR, from 200,000 redundancies and 120,000 vacancies to rapid policy shifts and AI adoption. Speakers stressed the need for proactive role redesign, stronger employee‑metric programs, and close...
Where Can AI Make the Most Impact in Hiring?
AI adoption in recruiting jumped from 26% to 53% in the past year, yet many firms still shy away from using it for core hiring decisions. Most organizations apply AI only to routine tasks like resume filtering and job‑description writing,...
Industry Insider: Meike MacFarlane on Building Agile Talent in Lidl & Kaufland Asia’s Fast-Moving Supply Chain
Lidl & Kaufland Asia’s Chief People Officer Meike MacFarlane outlines how the retailer is building an agile, digitally‑savvy workforce across ten Asian markets. The firm relies on graduate trainee programmes, work‑study opportunities and diverse hiring to grow talent internally while reinforcing a...
Meta 20 May Layoff: As ‘Doomsday’ Nears, Anxious Employees Stock up on Free Snacks, Chargers; Apply to Jobs Preemptively
Meta announced its first wave of layoffs for May 20, targeting up to 8,000 employees—roughly 10% of its global Facebook and Instagram workforce. The cuts follow a 2022‑23 restructuring that eliminated 21,000 jobs, but this round comes with a more generous...
Sixth Circuit Backs School District in Guide-Dog ADA Leave Dispute
The Sixth Circuit affirmed that Lakota Local School District did not violate the ADA when it denied paid sick leave to art teacher Andrea Tumbleson, who needed three weeks off for guide‑dog training, and instead offered unpaid leave as a...
The Education Delusion Is Costing You Talent…and It’s Fixable
Randy Gage warns that relying on academic credentials creates a hiring blind spot, as many graduates lack the critical thinking and value‑creation mindset businesses need. He argues the problem is not a talent shortage but a programming gap that costs...
Upcoming Webcast: Best Practices for a Neuroinclusive Workplace
Centre for Corporate Health’s national director of psychological services, Rachel Clements, will host a webcast on best practices for a neuroinclusive workplace. The session will cover shifting mindsets from simple awareness to systemic design, integrating neuroinclusion during organizational change, and...