Dive Brief: Hiring for skilled trades has increased to keep up with the rate of artificial intelligence infrastructure growth, a Wednesday report from Randstad indicates. Since late 2022 when generative AI entered the mainstream, demand for robotics technicians has spiked ...

Between 2024 and 2025, the percentage of U.S. adults taking GLP-1s for weight loss more than doubled, according to Gallup, rising from 5.8% to 12.4%. With this accelerating demand being a major driver of surging employer healthcare cost. It’s no ...

Artificial intelligence use at work is increasingly a fact of life, especially for knowledge workers. For better or for worse, that includes HR: AI is increasingly being adopted in recruiting, compensation and even performance management.  But that also means it’s ...

Dive Brief: More than 6 million Black women, or 57% of Black women in the workforce, live in “pre-emption states,” according to a March report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, A Better Balance and the 75 Million. ...

What is your business doing to show employees how much they’re valued?  A catered lunch is nice. A foosball table might be fun. But neither meaningfully improves someone’s ability to do their job well.  Today’s employees want something deeper: tools, flexibility, ...

Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Labor launched a free artificial intelligence literacy course Tuesday, designed to help U.S. workers learn AI basics, according to a news release. The text message-based program, titled “Make America AI-Ready,” is available by texting ...

Dive Brief: The uncontrolled gender pay gap grew slightly in 2026, with women now earning $0.82 per dollar earned by men, down from $0.83 last year, according to a Tuesday report by compensation vendor Payscale. Over a 40-year career, that ...

For some in the hospitality industry, the annual gender pay gap is nearly $20,000, while CHROs are more frequently showing up on lists of the highest-paid workers at companies.  Here’s a closer look at those numbers and some of the ...

Dive Brief: President Donald Trump has directed executive departments and agencies to insert a clause in federal contracts and subcontracts requiring these partners to agree they will “not engage in any racially discriminatory DEI activities” or risk the cancellation of ...

Dive Brief: Only 30% of U.S. employees say their senior leaders are “exceptional,” meaning they keep up with what today’s workforce truly needs, according to new research from The Grossman Group with The Harris Poll. Meanwhile, 16% of employees called their ...