Human Resources News and Headlines
Human Resources News and Headlines
Emerson College has launched the Division of Media and Arts Ventures (DMAV) and is recruiting its inaugural Vice President to unify the school’s theater, radio, gallery and other media assets. The executive will report directly to President Jay Bernhardt, oversee an approximately $10 million operating budget, and manage venues such as ArtsEmerson, WERS 88.9 FM, and five performance spaces. The role is designed to blend professional programming with academic curricula, generate diversified revenue, and position Emerson as Boston’s premier cultural destination. Compensation ranges from $300,000 to $350,000 annually, with relocation support.
In March, U.S. tech employment contracted, with 118,000 fewer IT positions compared to February, according to CompTIA analysis of BLS data. Unemployment among technology workers rose to 3.9%, up from 3.1% a year earlier but still below the overall 4.3%...
DLA Piper failed to secure summary judgment and will face a federal jury trial in Manhattan over allegations it fired associate Anisha Mehta for taking maternity leave. Judge Analisa Torres found the firm’s performance‑based justification conflicted with evidence, siding with...
Chief economics correspondent Ben Casselman explains that the U.S. labor market is caught in a "low‑hire, low‑fire" cycle, where hiring has stalled even as job openings stay elevated. Unemployment hovers around 3.7% while the quits rate dropped to a decade‑low...
A KPMG U.S. survey of 361 interns reveals Generation Z interns prioritize hands‑on, in‑person experiences, mentoring and networking over digital training. They aim to showcase critical thinking, problem‑solving, and creativity—skills AI cannot replace. The cohort would sacrifice about $5,000 in annual...
The White House’s FY 2027 budget request omits any civilian federal pay raise while proposing a 5‑7% increase for military personnel and a $1.5 trillion defense budget—about $445 billion more than 2026 levels. Civilian workers received only a 1% raise in 2026, the...
Engineers Ireland’s 2026 barometer shows that over 40% of engineering firms need three to six months to fill vacancies, creating a bottleneck for housing, energy, transport and water projects. Only 17% of engineers rate the nation’s overall infrastructure as good,...
Citi’s 2025 proxy report shows wealth head Andy Sieg dropped off the bank’s five highest‑paid executives, despite a 15% raise to $13 million the prior year. He was replaced by veteran international chief Ernesto Torres Cantú, whose total compensation reached $15.5 million,...
The article argues that the common mantra “hire the best person” ignores how hiring actually works, with decisions driven by networks and familiar patterns. It uses the NFL’s Rooney Rule as a case study, showing that policies requiring interviews of...
More than 200 warehouse employees at UNFI’s Pompano Beach, Florida facility have voted unanimously to authorize a strike unless a fair contract is reached. The workers, represented by Teamsters Local 769, are demanding wages, benefits and safety standards that match contracts...
A design‑driven fashion startup based in Los Angeles is gearing up to launch its first collection in Fall 2026 and is hiring Summer Design Interns for May through September. The unpaid role targets current fashion or apparel design students with...
Ahold Delhaize USA has rolled out ADUSA Connect, a new mobile app for its store‑level associates. The platform aggregates curated news, company resources, and an internal social wall where employees can post updates and interact. Launched in early April, the app is...
The NASUWT teachers' union is urging the UK government to extend fully paid maternity leave for teachers from the planned eight weeks to 26 weeks, arguing that inadequate support is driving a wave of resignations among women in their 30s....
SAP SuccessFactors Learning will roll out Person‑Based Learning in the first half of 2026, shifting from employment‑based to employee‑centric profiles. Under the new model, each employee retains a single learning record regardless of multiple concurrent or sequential employments, eliminating the...
Jim Knight argues that storytelling is the missing ingredient for turning a good company into an unforgettable one. By framing values, vision, and lessons as narratives, leaders can make culture emotionally resonant and up to 22 times more memorable than raw...
A developer created a Payroll Impact Simulator for SAP SuccessFactors, pairing a SAP Fiori front‑end with Backend ECP OData APIs to deliver instant, real‑time pay‑check forecasts. The tool lets employees model life events—such as a new child or a 401(k) change—and see...
Senators Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders have asked the Senate Finance and HELP committees to hold hearings with CEOs of major health insurers, citing record profits, high premiums, coverage denials, and excessive executive pay. They point to UnitedHealth’s sprawling network...
The rise of AI-driven convenience has accelerated a societal shift toward digital interactions, contributing to record levels of loneliness and anxiety. With over 800 million weekly ChatGPT users, the technology risks replacing face‑to‑face dialogue, posing a hidden business risk. Workday Foundation...
The article argues that the partnership between the chief people officer (CPO) and chief financial officer (CFO) will become a defining leadership relationship in the AI era. AI is automating routine tasks that have traditionally occupied both functions, such as...
The article argues that the partnership between chief people officers (CPOs) and chief financial officers (CFOs) will become a decisive factor in the AI era. As AI eliminates routine tasks like resume screening and variance analysis, the remaining decisions—what to...
ActivTrak’s Productivity Lab analyzed 443 million hours of digital activity from 1,111 companies and 163,638 employees over three years, revealing that worker focus time has fallen to its lowest point in that period. The data shows AI‑driven tools have not yet...
Leaders are the primary architects of organisational culture, setting values that cascade through hiring, development, and daily interactions. By articulating clear principles—such as PatSnap’s six core values—executives embed a shared mindset that guides behavior across global teams. Trust, open communication,...
The WNBA’s new collective bargaining agreement raises the salary floor to $270,000 and the ceiling to $1.4 million, a 364% increase and the largest jump in U.S. professional sports. Players will now receive a 20% share of league revenues, while the...
Remote work was expected to boost productivity, yet recent data shows a quiet decline. Employees face interruptions every two minutes, leading to fragmented work, slower decision‑making and weaker accountability despite higher communication levels. This inefficiency translates into higher labor cost...
Artificial intelligence is being positioned as a practical assistant for change‑management initiatives, offering eight distinct use cases ranging from drafting training materials and employee communications to building project timelines, presentation templates, chatbots, video content, and visual data assets. Each AI‑generated...
The aesthetics industry is driven largely by women, who spend over $1,000 annually on cosmetic procedures and conduct extensive research before treatment. Yet fewer than 20% of board‑certified plastic surgeons in the United States are women, and only about 8%...
Kavita Singh, United Breweries' chief human resources officer, is resigning effective April 30, 2026, concluding a five‑year tenure. During her time she oversaw a workforce of over 12,000 employees across 19 manufacturing plants and 16 co‑packing units, handling talent management,...
ATFX announced the appointment of Muntaser Halaseh as Vice President of Sales for the MENA region. Halaseh joins after a year as Regional Director at SquaredFinancial and five years leading sales at Equiti Group. The move underscores ATFX’s strategy to...
Hybrid working is no longer a logistics puzzle but a mirror exposing broken workplace cultures. Companies that treat hybrid as a human challenge—focusing on trust, purpose, and equitable experiences—outperform those that rely on rigid policies. Research across 16 countries shows...
SAP’s Let’s Talk Transformation webinar series introduces organizations to cloud‑based HR solutions, emphasizing benefits such as streamlined processes, real‑time data access, and strategic agility. The program features SAP experts who outline migration pathways, share best‑practice guidelines, and present real‑world case...
Prove, a digital identity verification platform, is investing $5 million to create 50 new high‑value roles in its Dublin operations. The positions span product management, software engineering, R&D, and data science, bolstering the company’s global product development pipeline. Since establishing its...
Rising fuel prices in Vietnam, driven by the Middle East conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have prompted a wave of remote‑work initiatives across tech, media, and manufacturing firms. Companies such as Thanh Giong Computer, Sacombank, and...
Ethical leadership is presented as the foundation of effective, good leadership, emphasizing the impact of leaders on culture and employee wellbeing. The article outlines a practical five‑step framework—awareness, attitude, relationality, inner values, and learning—to help leaders make life‑affirming choices. It...
Khaitan & Co., one of India’s leading law firms, announced the promotion of 49 lawyers to senior positions, elevating 17 to partners and 32 to counsel. The move expands the firm’s leadership roster to 349 senior members, reflecting a deliberate...
Deloitte South Asia plans to add 50,000 employees in India, emphasizing AI‑focused upskilling rather than automation‑driven layoffs. The firm has already trained nearly 30,000 staff in artificial intelligence and is moving another 20,000 onto its proprietary platforms. Deloitte invests roughly...
Chinese EV giant BYD slashed roughly 100,000 jobs in 2025, trimming its workforce by 10% to about 870,000 employees. Despite the layoffs, the company posted record revenue of 8,039.6 billion yuan (≈ $1.13 trillion) and delivered 4.6 million vehicles, including over one million exported...
The latest UK gender‑pay‑gap reporting shows the disparity widening at two flagship firms. Clifford Chance’s gender pay gap rose to roughly 45% this year, up from about 38% a year earlier. McKinsey’s gap also expanded, reaching approximately 48%, a six‑point...
Ivy Nazareth has been promoted to lead‑partner hiring at KPMG India, marking her second tenure with the firm. A commerce graduate with an HR postgraduate diploma, she began her career at First Advantage and Tata Communications before joining KPMG in...
US labor market showed signs of cooling in February as job openings dropped to 6.9 million, the lowest level in months. Private payroll growth slowed to an average of 18,000 jobs per month while layoffs held steady, indicating employers are pausing...
A new preprint examines how digitalization of listed firms influences employee overtime, using nighttime satellite light data as a proxy for digital activity. The authors find that digital transformation raises overtime hours through market‑expansion and technological‑innovation channels, yet also boosts...
The U.S. Department of Education has voluntarily dismissed its appeal in the Fourth Circuit case challenging its February 2025 diversity‑related Dear Colleague Letter. The district court’s ruling—finding the guidance unconstitutionally vague and in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act—remains in force,...
General Motors has appointed David Mogensen, former Uber global marketing chief, as Cadillac’s new chief marketing officer, ending an eight‑month vacancy. Mogensen brings experience leading Uber and Uber Eats across 30 markets and a prior stint at BMW, aligning with...
Morgan Stanley increased co‑president Andy Saperstein's 2025 compensation to $34 million, a 26% rise from the prior year. The package includes a $1 million salary, $11.2 million cash bonus and roughly $22 million in long‑term incentives tied to performance. The board highlighted his role...
The Interior Department, after cutting about 20% of its workforce over the past 15 months, has launched a new Deferred Resignation Program that lets most full‑time employees take paid leave through September before exiting government service. The program, which previously...
Intel announced that Aparna Bawa, former Zoom COO and chief legal officer, will assume the combined role of chief legal and people officer in May. The move consolidates Intel's legal, human resources, ethics, and compliance functions under a single executive,...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced a new reorganization that will shift more National Park Service employees into visitor‑facing roles. The move follows a prior reduction that eliminated roughly a quarter of the 70,000‑person workforce through retirements, firings, and attrition. Critics...
The EEOC filed a lawsuit against BestBet Jacksonville, alleging the casino‑style poker venue violated the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by refusing reasonable accommodations for multiple pregnant employees. One worker with low‑blood‑pressure issues and a subchorionic hematoma was denied a doctor‑recommended...
A new meta‑analysis of 88 studies on gender, time, and organizations reveals that women’s unpaid domestic labor creates a hidden time gap that hampers career advancement, especially in Africa, with similar patterns worldwide. The study links this time scarcity to...
Prediction markets are signaling a sharp rise in tech layoffs for 2026. Kalshi shows an 85 percent probability, while Polymarket pushes that figure to 92 percent. The odds are based on a broad Information Sector benchmark of 447,000 cuts, compared with roughly...
Burger King announced a nationwide hiring drive to add up to 60,000 new team members across its roughly 6,500 U.S. restaurants. The recruitment spans entry‑level positions through management roles and responds to higher guest traffic after recent restaurant modernizations. Most...
