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Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is an important and ongoing strategy of any HR plan. Ensuring that your company supports hiring, engaging, and retaining diverse workers with varied backgrounds will set your company up for long-term success and an increased bottom line. This topic offers the latest strategies for talent management, key insights from diversity leaders, case studies on D&I in the workplace, and more.
Progress toward gender parity in corporate leadership has stalled globally since 2022. Recent World Economic Forum research reveals that women hold just 24.6% of C-suite roles and accounted for only 21.1% of CEO hires in 2025. While systemic changes to hiring and leadership frameworks are critical, meaningful progress also requires direct, daily advocacy from leaders […]
Progress toward gender parity in corporate leadership has stalled globally since 2022. According to recent research from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in their report, Closing the Gender Gap in Senior Leadership, women continue to make up less than half of the global workforce and hold less than one-third of top-level management roles. The Numbers Behind […]
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 […]
There’s a new phrase quietly circulating through the corporate world, and it points to a heavy reality for American professionals: “cry masking.” 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 […]
As rising living costs force many Americans to delay retirement, new research from resume.io reveals the steep challenges older workers face when trying to re-enter the workforce. A survey of 600 U.S. job seekers aged 50 and over shows that while financial pressures are keeping people working longer than planned, widespread fears of age discrimination are heavily […]
A recent study by Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) provides new large-scale evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tools can produce racially disparate outcomes. For employers increasingly relying on automated screening to manage applicant volume, the study raises significant legal risk, particularly under long-standing disparate impact principles. Details The Stanford researchers analyzed […]
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires employers to accommodate the religious practices of their employees unless doing so would impose an “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Based on one sentence from a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, federal courts previously interpreted “undue hardship” to mean any effort […]
On Wednesday, June 10, 2026, a coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia filed suit in the federal district court for the District of Maryland challenging the actions taken to implement Executive Order (EO) 14398, “Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors.” The lawsuit alleges the actions exceed statutory authority and were issued without […]
For nearly a decade, corporate inclusion efforts were all about signing pledges, building coalitions, and making big promises. But in today’s intense legal and cultural environment, good intentions simply aren’t enough to protect a business or unite a workforce. To meet this high-stakes moment, SHRM has officially launched the SHRM Center for Inclusion and Diversity […]
“Race” is in quotes in the headline because the lawsuit covered in this article illuminates a definition of “race” that might surprise you. Tenure Denied, Terminal Year Triggered, Lawsuit Filed Academia is a self-contained universe. Your employment contract is renewed year to academic year if performance is satisfactory. In year six, the year-to-year probationary period […]