Dive Brief: Airline customers who fly economy report the most satisfaction with Southwest Airlines than any other major North American airline, according to a recent J.D. Power report. J.D. Power surveyed over 10,200 passengers between March 2024 and March 2025.  ...

This is the third installment of a five-part series on employers offering on-site day care.   Patagonia has always been as much a community fostering a company as a company fostering a community, so it stands to reason the company ...

Dive Brief: A federal judge did not have the authority to order in-house attorneys for Southwest Airlines to attend a religious liberty training as part of a contempt sanction against the company for allegedly violating his judgment, the 5th U.S. ...

Employers may be overlooking middle-age and mid-career employees in their development efforts, according to a Perceptyx report released May 7. Career growth and development are especially important to retention and engagement this year, Perceptyx said, noting that four of the ...

The sea change in workplace flexibility sparked by the pandemic has largely stabilized, even as remote and hybrid options remain popular for some workers, according to a May 6 report based on McKinsey & Co.’s American Opportunity Survey. Overall, slightly ...

Dive Brief: While 86% of employers think their benefits are modern, only 59% of workers agree,  according to the results of Prudential’s 2025 Benefits and Beyond study, released Monday.  Workers say their their top challenges are saving for retirement (45%), ...

This is the first installment of a five-part series on employers offering on-site day care.   Employers that have built on-site day care centers are wildly enthusiastic, if not evangelical, about their child care benefit. They readily share photos and ...

The IRS recently announced a slight boost to the maximum annual amount that individual employees may contribute to health savings accounts while enrolled in a high-deductible health plan for 2026, which will be set at $4,400, up from 2025’s limit ...

Under Florida law, employers are not necessarily liable for incidents of domestic violence at work, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held on May 5. The appeals court reached this conclusion in response to a lawsuit, Gimenez v. McLane ...

Most hiring managers feel skeptical about the capabilities and professionalism of young workers joining the workforce, with 1 in 6 saying they’re reluctant to hire the cohort, according to a May 6 report from Resume.org. More than half of hiring ...