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Automated hiring tools have officially crossed the line from experiment to expectation. New research from Paylocity, which surveyed over 1,000 U.S. HR and recruiting leaders, reveals a clear trend: while AI is saving teams significant time, it’s also creating a sharp tension between speed and missing out on top talent. Nearly all HR leaders (91%) […]
HR professionals are no strangers to change, and the rise of AI has caused a drastic shift in the way that HR teams manage day-to-day work, hiring processes, and employee experience. While these shifts can bring positive opportunities for the ways that teams work, recent insights from HR professionals reveal that AI transformation isn’t without […]
A serious workplace incident rarely ends with the incident itself. For many employers, the next challenge arrives when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) begins asking questions. The steps taken during the first 24 hours often shape the course of the agency’s investigation and can affect the company’s position in any resulting enforcement action […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]