Employee engagement has plummeted to its lowest level in over a decade, with many companies reporting that just 21% of employees are actively engaged. At the same time, worker burnout and exhaustion are soaring. Combined, these issues are costing organizations ...

Dive Brief: A group of former Tesla HR professionals alleged that they were either fired or effectively forced to resign after attempting to surface other employees’ race discrimination and retaliation complaints at the company’s Fremont, California, plant, in a complaint ...

Dive Brief: California-based Martinez Animal Hospital agreed to pay $20,000 to a former employee for alleged retaliation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday.  The hospital allegedly fired a worker who objected to mandatory training that contained religious content ...

Editor’s Note: ‘Happy Hour’ is an HR Dive column from Editor Ginger Christ. Follow along as she dives into some of the offbeat news in the HR space. Cleaning the public restroom: the most dreaded job among my co-workers and ...

Chris Coleman is partner-in-charge of St. Louis-based accounting firm RubinBrown’s Construction Services Group. Opinions are the author’s own. In an already tight construction labor market, raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at jobsites threaten to deepen workforce shortages, drive ...

The issue of candidate fraud may only be growing worse. Within three years — by 2028 — 1 in 4 candidate profiles worldwide could be fake, according to a July 31 report from Gartner. In a survey of 3,000 job ...

Dive Brief: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aiming to “facilitate access to alternative assets” — like private equity, real estate and cryptocurrency — for fiduciaries managing 401(k)s and other defined-contribution plans. The order directed the U.S. Department ...

One plaintiff is seeking millions after he allegedly was retaliated against and wrongfully terminated for trying to investigate potentially unlawful conduct at a baby product manufacturer, and another claimed her employer used a “blatantly wrong” interpretation of China’s mandatory retirement ...

U.S. salary budget increases are expected to stay put at 3.5% in 2026, down just 0.1% from 2025, signaling a cooling talent market, as well as increased budgetary pressure on employers, according to data published Thursday by compensation vendor PayScale. ...

HR professionals have much on their minds ahead of the 2025 open enrollment season, but a perhaps understated issue concerns employees’ long-term worries about their finances. More than two-thirds of workers in a recent multigenerational survey published by the Transamerica ...