Dive Brief: Women in recent years have expanded their participation in the global workforce beyond pre-pandemic levels but, based on the current rate of progress, will probably not reach gender parity with men for 134 years, JPMorgan Chase said in ...

Dive Brief: HR staffers are overworked, SHRM’s recently released 2025 State of the Workplace report showed: 62% of professionals said they’d been working beyond their capacity last year and 57% said their department was understaffed. Still, more than half of ...

Dive Brief: 3 out of 4 tech hiring managers at companies using artificial intelligence say they’re hiring AI talent too quickly and not taking the time to build a viable and enduring pipeline of qualified and high-potential candidates, according to ...

Dive Brief: Employee burnout costs employers anywhere from $4,000 to $21,000 per employee every year, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.  Using a computational model, the researchers found that burnout costs employers an average ...

Dive Brief: Pay transparency is creating a challenging environment for employers, according to Payscale’s 2025 Compensation Best Practices Report, the company’s 16th such report.  Thanks to a heightened focus on fair pay, organizations ranked compensation as a bigger challenge than ...

Dive Brief: California State Sen. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, announced his introduction of SB7, otherwise known as the “No Robo Bosses Act,” on March 6 to require human oversight of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Under SB 7, companies could not ...

David T. Harmon and Mariya Gonor are co-chairs of the Executive Compensation and Employment Strategies Group at Norris McLaughlin P.A. On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring English the official language of the United States. Depending ...

Dive Brief: An Alabama-based security solutions firm will pay $1.6 million as part of a three-year consent decree to settle sex discrimination claims brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Monday. According to an EEOC press ...

The gender pay gap in U.S. has narrowed over the past two decades — but only slightly, according to Pew Research Center.  Data analysis shows that women used to earn 65% of what men made in 1982. As of 2024, ...

Dive Brief: Deere & Co shareholders voted down a proposal late last month that would have required reporting on racial and gender hiring statistics following its pullback from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives over the summer. The final vote was 200.2 ...