Emerging programs are increasingly going beyond simple vocational training by targeting students early or in underserved communities, offering direct pathways to employment and exposing trainees to advanced tech skills.  These workforce development programs are a response to the industry labor ...

DeVry University’s third annual report on upskilling in the U.S. workforce, Bridging the gap: Overcoming a silent standoff in America’s talent economy, returned this fall to reveal new insights about how workers and employers are navigating uncertainty in today’s workforce. ...

Approximately 15% of all U.S. jobs — about 23 million total — are at elevated risk of displacement due to automation, but actual risk varies by occupational group and the presence of nontechnical barriers to automation, according to a SHRM ...

An employee working for two ostensibly separate but “operationally integrated” businesses is considered jointly employed, and the employee’s hours worked for the businesses must be combined for the purpose of determining whether their total hours worked exceeded 40 in a ...

Within the next three years, nearly 60% of executives say they intend to change their role — with some planning to leave their company entirely, according to a Sept. 29 report from LHH, a talent solutions provider and global business ...

For the first time in 12 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish its monthly “Employment Situation” report on the first Friday of the month due to the federal government shutdown — only the latest problem du ...

Dive Brief: Republican and Democratic leaders traded blame for a government shutdown on Wednesday that put hundreds of thousands of workers on furlough, gave the Trump administration a potential opening to slash the federal workforce and imperiled the timely release ...

Dive Brief: Outside of compensation, the main reasons employees unionize include a desire for better work/life balance, more input into business decisions and more job security, said employers who had experienced unionization over the past two years and who had been ...

Dive Brief: Eighty-four percent of hiring managers say they’ll provide higher salaries to candidates who have skills in high demand, according to business consulting firm Robert Half’s 2026 Salary Guide, which was released Monday.  Hiring managers identified artificial intelligence, machine ...

Dive Brief: Knowledge workers say they would delegate 27% of their work to AI agents today and expect this to grow to more than 40% in 3 years, according to Asana’s State of AI at Work report, released Sept. 25. ...