Dive Brief: Financial difficulties pushed 78% of U.S.-based HR leaders to conduct multiple rounds of layoffs within the past year, according to the results of a July survey by outplacement firm Careerminds, with many stating they oversaw “serial layoffs” that ...
More than half — 55% — of U.S. workers say they experienced a quarter-life career crisis between ages 20-35 or are currently going through one, according to an Aug. 8 report from FlexJobs. Workers pointed to factors such as stress, ...
Dive Brief: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Office of Federal Operations has issued two federal sector appellate decisions that it said clarified employers’ obligations toward religious rights in the workplace. One complaint (Augustine V. v. Department of Veterans Affairs) ...
Editor’s note: Philip Watson is CFO of Payscale, a Seattle, Washington-based SaaS company which provides compensation data and software. The views are the author’s own. Many companies lack a comprehensive compensation strategy. By “comprehensive compensation strategy,” this means a structured, ...
The U.S. Department of Labor is offering money to employers who help train workers to fill critical needs, and for the first time since 2020, the percentage of CEOs who plan to shrink their workforce was higher than that of ...
By letting workers convert unused PTO into cash, student loans or 401(k) contributions, more employers are giving workers choice. Goldman Sachs Ayco’s 2025 Benefits and Compensation Trends report, published earlier this year, showed some employers even permit workers to convert ...
The state of Massachusetts in the past week made a series of moves, including the awarding of school grants and approving a public-private training program, aimed at alleviating the skilled trades shortage and bolstering apprenticeships. The state awarded $24.2 million ...
Virtual job interview training can help people returning from incarceration to improve their job prospects by practicing interviews in realistic scenarios, according to a study published Aug. 5 by University of Michigan researchers. In the study, an online simulator boosted ...
Dive Brief: A 2024 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission discrimination charge constituted an overly broad and vague “fishing expedition” that should be blocked by a federal judge, the board of education for New Mexico’s Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools district alleged in ...
The percentage of CEOs who expect a reduction in their workforce during the next 12 months rose for the fifth consecutive quarter, climbing from 28% in the second quarter to 34%, according to an Aug. 7 report from The Conference ...