Dive Brief: With finance and accounting talent shortages among the biggest workforce challenges cited by CFOs, some finance chiefs report that they are playing a bigger role in finding and hiring workers to staff their teams, according to an April ...

The Walton family, which owns a significant portion of Walmart, will launch a STEM-focused, ‘business-infused’ university in the coming years, according to a Thursday announcement. The institution will be housed at Walmart’s former headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, and is being ...

Once a quiet, back-office function, payroll is now under pressure from all sides – from new compliance demands to workforce strategies that span borders. And employees are raising the bar too – expecting faster access to pay, true financial transparency, ...

This is the first installment of a five-part series on employers offering on-site day care.   Steamboat Springs, a town in Colorado’s Yampa Valley, rests between a constellation of mountain peaks at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet. A single ...

Dive Brief: Google agreed to a $50 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by Black current and former employees who alleged racial discrimination in the company’s policies and practices, according to a Thursday court filing. The lead plaintiff in ...

Amid rocky waters in the economy, one metric may stand out in analyzing organizational health: leadership trust, according to Aura Intelligence, an artificial intelligence and data platform that helps firms with decision making. Employees’ sentiment toward their leaders is “the ...

Dive Brief: About half of C-suite executives are considering spending cuts in the second quarter amid macroeconomic challenges, according to Gartner findings released Tuesday. In a March webinar poll, 49% of corporate executives said they’re considering a budget cut for their ...

CEOs expect the growth rate of artificial intelligence investments to more than double during the next two years, prompting an increase in AI-related hiring and reskilling initiatives, according to a May 6 report from IBM’s Institute for Business Value. In ...

A jury awarded a former chief people officer nearly $3.3 million on Wednesday, finding she suffered retaliation for speaking up about alleged pay bias and wage and hour violations. The plaintiff, a lawyer with more than two decades of experience ...

Dive Brief: Amazon.com Services LLC violated federal labor law in multiple cases at a Staten Island, N.Y., warehouse when it failed to provide workers the opportunity to have a union representative present during disciplinary meetings and suspended a worker for ...