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As AI technology rapidly advances, companies are eagerly adopting these innovations to revolutionize and streamline their hiring practices. Notable firms like Hilton and Unilever have adopted AI-driven tools such as chatbots for initial screenings and one-way video interview platforms to enhance efficiency and manage large volumes of applicants. These tools automate routine tasks, allowing talent […]
Employers’ goals for voluntary benefits —increasingly a core component of any employer’s benefit package that allows employees to self-select from a menu of offerings, typically at reduced or increasingly no cost — have expanded dramatically since 2020. According to Buck’s 2022 Wellbeing and Voluntary Benefits Survey, half of all employers (52%) have added offerings in […]
Rapid growth is a challenge many successful companies face, including Advance Financial. In 4 years, we went from 300 employees to over 1,200 and increased our total revenue by more than 220%. Though this kind of success is certainly a “good” problem, growing pains were inevitable.
On August 15, 2022, the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania employers) upheld the District of New Jersey’s dismissal of an employee’s age discrimination claims, finding she was unable to show her employer’s nondiscriminatory reasons for not hiring her were “so plainly wrong that it cannot […]
(Updated February 4, 2010) In March of 2008, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) addressed an issue employers may face more frequently than ever before: What obligations does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) place on employers with regard to employees who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? HR Guide to Employment Law: A practical compliance […]
Most companies have embraced AI for their operations, but they’re not tapping into AI’s potential to improve employee collaboration, teamwork, leadership, and overall employee engagement. Businesses are moving quickly to adopt AI. When asked by Deloitte, 91% of corporate leaders said that AI solutions had become integrated throughout their organizations. Yet many companies aren’t making […]
The new federal overtime rules, the misclassification of employees, and recordkeeping are among the top five wage and hour risks employers in California face, according to California attorney Marc Jacuzzi of the law firm Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, PC.
Workplace culture is the difference between having a confident, productive team and one that dreads their desk about as much as they do the DMV. Liz Almeida, CHRO at Panasonic, warns leaders about the dangers of a stagnant, unsupportive work culture during her panel at SPARKHR 2025. Though she stresses the importance of culture, Almeida […]
The world of remote work has brought with it all kinds of new models and approaches, as well as allowing opportunities to refine older strategies. We thought we would share with you an infographic that can help leaders understand how to operate high performing teams that work remotely.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department on July 20 issued final regulations amending the definitions of qualified nonelective contribution (QNEC) and qualified matching contribution (QMAC) for employer-sponsored retirement plans to resolve questions about whether participant forfeitures can be used to fund QNECs and QMACs.