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CEOs eye C-suite shake-ups as pressures mount, report finds

CEOs eye C-suite shake-ups as pressures mount, report finds

Dive Brief: Nearly 60% of CEOs plan to replace a member of their senior leadership team within the next six months, with CFOs topping the list of executives targeted for a potential shake-up, Boston Consulting Group found in a survey ...

Recruiters find people faster with AI — but confidence in candidates hasn’t followed

Recruiters find people faster with AI — but confidence in candidates hasn’t followed

Dive Brief: Recruiters are finding candidates faster thanks to artificial intelligence tools, but that speed is not translating into candidate confidence, according to data sent to HR Dive by TestGorilla. While 72% of the more than 1,400 U.S. talent professionals ...

Employee benefits seem to satisfy workers, but gaps persist

Employee benefits seem to satisfy workers, but gaps persist

Dive Brief: Workers’ overall well-being has improved, according to data analysis by WTW, with 64% of employees saying they’re physically thriving. This is up 10% since 2019. Improvements in how employees understand and access their benefits may be contributing to ...

Walmart plans to offer employees free prescriptions, paid NICU leave

Walmart plans to offer employees free prescriptions, paid NICU leave

Dive Brief: Walmart plans to expand its healthcare benefits in the coming months and will offer free prescriptions for more than 250 medications, including GLP-1s for workers with type 2 diabetes with a new prior authorization, the company announced Tuesday.  ...

CEOs want ‘enterprise CHROs’ who can talk strategy and skills, report finds

CEOs want ‘enterprise CHROs’ who can talk strategy and skills, report finds

Dive Brief: CEOs at high-performing companies are working with CHROs to reshape the function into an “enterprise” role — one that puts CHROs on the team with CEOs, CFOs and senior technology leaders and at the heart of securing the ...

Leaders say they are worried about their ability to handle change

Leaders say they are worried about their ability to handle change

Dive Brief: Although company leaders are critical to organizational growth, only 17% said they “feel confident anticipating and reacting to change,” according to the Global Leadership Forecast 2027 from consulting firm DDI. That percentage has not changed much since 2025, ...

Robots can handle a third of physical jobs — but not yet cost-effectively, Anthropic says

Robots can handle a third of physical jobs — but not yet cost-effectively, Anthropic says

Dive Brief: Drivers and warehouse-related jobs are most exposed to being taken over by robots, an analysis by AI company Anthropic found. The technology for autonomous cars has advanced enough that it’s possible for robots to do about 97% of ...

Mailbag: How can HR keep track of employees’ credentials?

Mailbag: How can HR keep track of employees’ credentials?

In HR Dive’s Mailbag series, we cover HR professionals’ questions about all things work. Have a question? Send it to [email protected]. Q: How should employers track expiration dates for worker credentials, deadlines for employee training and more? A: Employers largely ...

Time spent waiting to work is compensable if required, appeals court rules

Time spent waiting to work is compensable if required, appeals court rules

Dive Brief: Employees must be paid for time spent waiting if they are required to report to work and there is no work to be done, a divided appeals court held Tuesday, reviving a wage and hour lawsuit filed by ...

More ‘even-handed’: Understanding EEOC’s direction on national origin bias

More ‘even-handed’: Understanding EEOC’s direction on national origin bias

National origin bias enforcement is changing under President Donald Trump’s second administration. Employment discrimination based on national origin — just like discrimination based on race, sex, color and religion —  has long been illegal. But the way that federal agencies ...