By: Carolyn Crist • Published Nov. 1, 2024 Nearly 8 in 10 employees have experienced burnout in the last year — leading to lower engagement for more than half of workers and reduced productivity for more than a third of workers, ...

Dive Brief: Illinois law now protects workers from employment discrimination based on their family responsibilities. Under the law, which took effect Jan. 1, employers in the state can’t make decisions about recruitment, hiring, promotion, and more based on a worker ...

Dive Brief: United Airlines will pay $99,000 to settle a claim from a worker of Mongolian ancestry that the airline tolerated — and then failed to investigate — a manager’s use of a slur towards him. According to a complaint ...

Dive Brief: McDonald’s announced a step back from diversity, equity and inclusion — and signaled a shift to “inclusion” — in a Jan. 6 statement. Sunsetting representation goals, “pausing external surveys” and retiring its supply chain’s commitment to DEI were ...

Lindsay Greene is president and CEO of the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. To meet the consumer demands of tomorrow, we need to empower workers to succeed in the types of satisfying careers dominating today’s digital age, which is why ...

In 2025, good talent is still going to be hard to find, and that hunt is being shaped by technology.  HR professionals and recruiters can use AI to help overcome those challenges. But, at the same time, job seekers are ...

Among technology topics, interest in artificial intelligence-related skills has surged dramatically, with the highest increases seen in prompt engineering, AI principles and generative AI, according to learning platform O’Reilly’s Technology Trends for 2025 report. Notably, there was a decline in ...

Dive Brief: A district court may decide whether New York’s law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of an employee’s reproductive health decision-making violated a group of Christian plaintiffs’ rights to expressive association, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

The countdown is over, the fireworks have faded and we are now officially halfway through the 2020s. That may seem a difficult fact for HR professionals to grasp given how the decade began amid the disruption caused by COVID-19. Entering ...

Dive Brief: Supermarket chain Publix allegedly fired a pregnant employee because she needed accommodations for pregnancy-related medical conditions and planned to take leave for her upcoming childbirth, according to a Dec. 31 lawsuit. Per the complaint in Wyatt v. Publix ...