Return-to-office mandates are heating up again, with well-known companies like Starbucks, Target and Google in the past month ordering employees to increase their time in the office. Some have initiated voluntary exit programs for those who would rather not.  Hybrid ...

Even with accrued paid time off, 59% of U.S. workers said they feel anxiety about taking time off from work, according to a July 9 report from LiveCareer. Workers pointed to an unhealthy work culture as the major factor for ...

Dive Brief: Dive Insight: A week after Trump’s inauguration, he ushered out previous NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox — a move that Congressional Democrats on the Labor Caucus called both “unprecedented” and a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.  Wilcox ...

Target Chief Commercial Officer Rick Gomez has asked some members of the commercial team to return to the office three days a week starting Sept. 2. The executive sent an email to corporate commercial employees last week telling hybrid employees in the ...

Dive Brief: Nearly 1 in 5 workers use generative AI to research salaries, 27% of whom said it inflated their compensation expectations, according to Payscale’s 2025 Pay Confidence Gap Report, released Tuesday.  Employers are noticing, too; seventy percent of organizations ...

Nearly 4 in 10 new hires — including 1 in 2 Generation Z workers — reported second thoughts about taking a job during the onboarding process, according to a July 15 report from TalentLMS and BambooHR. More than half of ...

A leading expert in mental health and workplace wellbeing is urging UK employers to stop viewing employee wellness and business performance as two unrelated challenges. Dr Michelle Main, Head of EAP Services at TAC Healthcare and a cognitive psychology PhD, ...

New car dealers in California are launching an apprenticeship program to recruit and train workers who want to become automotive service technicians, according to a July 10 announcement. In a partnership between the California New Car Dealers Association Foundation and ...

Dive Brief: A Maryland retirement community will pay $85,000 to settle U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims that it refused to promote a Black manager and subsequently fired her when she complained of discrimination, EEOC said in a press release ...

The recent failed push by members of Congress to freeze artificial intelligence laws at the state level has left U.S. companies with national operations facing a patchwork of rules on the technology. A Colorado AI statute set to go into effect next ...