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AI Promised You 11 Hours a Week Back: Here’s Where They Actually Went

It’s 10 a.m. and Maria asks an AI tool to draft a summary. The answer comes back fast but not quite right, so she pastes the same request into a second tool to see if it does better, then a third, because the second one was missing context the first one had. Thirty minutes disappear […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: You Have to Stop Playing Hero

Success in the workforce starts with your leaders. If those taking charge don’t have clarity and a focused direction, their talent will lag behind. But knowing exactly where you, your team, and your talent needs to go isn’t always simple, and sometimes, you need to bet on your success. Few know this better than Erika […]

Bias, Bots and Boundaries: Practical Tips for Avoiding Liability in AI Recruiting

Artificial intelligence can make recruiting faster, but legal responsibility does not disappear when technology enters the hiring process. That point is being tested in Mobley v. Workday, Inc., Case No. 3:23-cv-00770- RFL (N.D. Cal. 2023), a federal lawsuit pending in the Northern District of California, in which job applicants allege that Workday’s AI-based applicant-screening tools […]

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What Employers Should Know About Recent TPS Changes

On June 25, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Mullin v. Doe, in which the Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) designations for Haiti and Syria. Under the TPS statute, which was enacted in 1990, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary […]

Faces of HR: How Protiviti’s Fran Maxwell Navigates the New World of HR

Fran Maxwell didn’t set out to redefine human resources—he initially planned to spend his career running a Division 1 university athletics department. But after two years of pursuing that path in graduate school while studying for his MBA, he realized it wasn’t his true calling. Following his interest in business and organizational dynamics, he accepted […]

5th Circuit Rules Employee With 27 Work Deficiencies Still Makes It to Jury

You read the headline right: Despite 27 workplace violations, a three-judge panel from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appeals court for Texas) decided the employee still gets to take her Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claims to trial. Yes, it was by a 2-to-1 […]

EntertainHR: Home Runs and Hard Caps: the Looming MLB Labor Battle 

While it looks like more of the same this year in Major League Baseball (“MLB”), as the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal to load up for a run at a third straight World Series Championship, there could be major changes on the horizon as the collective bargaining agreement between the […]

No Free Pass for Medical Marijuana: What a New Florida Ruling Means for HR

When an employee tests positive for marijuana but holds a valid state medical card, how should HR respond? A recent Florida appeals court decision in Hillsborough County v. Giambrone confirmed that having a medical card doesn’t automatically grant an employee immunity from drug-free workplace policies. While the ruling supports employer enforcement, the holding is narrow and tightly […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: Why HR Can’t Ignore “Cry Masking”

A recent survey of 600 U.S. workers highlights just how widespread this hidden stress has become—and why HR leaders need to pay attention. Coined by resume.io, cry masking describes a growing phenomenon where employees who feel emotionally overwhelmed on the job go to extreme lengths to hide it. They step away to hide tears, suppress breakdowns,and […]

HR Query: Why Raises Aren’t Stopping the Legal Talent Drain

When it comes to keeping talented junior attorneys from walking out the door, the legal industry has a big problem—and throwing higher salaries at it simply isn’t working. The data confirms it. According to Chambers’ 2026 State of the US Legal Talent Market report (which surveyed 8,200 associates across 82 firms), workplace culture drives associate retention five times […]