Most HR professionals say it will be the responsibility of middle managers to reshape entry-level roles as artificial intelligence changes the workplace, and new hires were more likely to prefer their new role if it offered a better work-life balance.  ...

Orlando, Florida’s theme parks and vacation resorts project calm and whimsy, but inside the halls of the Orange County Convention Center, SHRM26 speakers painted a dire picture for the HR world. That mood was perhaps best captured in SHRM President ...

By: Jerame Johnson • Published Dec. 15, 2025 Jerame Johnson, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, THRP, MA-HRM, is a head of HR in the entertainment and gaming industry. He served 20 years in the U.S. Army in various organizations and leadership roles, including ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rescinded its affirmative action guidelines Tuesday, eliminating an interpretation that had persisted for 40 years. According to a June 30 statement, the guide and a related compliance manual “ran afoul” of Title VII of the ...

Just as HR managers and hiring professionals are using artificial intelligence to screen job candidates, job candidates are using AI to make themselves more attractive to hiring managers — with sometimes alarming results.  Headlines report fake people being hired and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s rare for a high-ranking federal official to hand out their cell phone number in a public setting. And yet, that’s exactly what Assistant U.S. Labor Secretary Henry Mack did before a crowd of SHRM26 attendees on ...

The president plans to nominate Keith Sonderling — a Republican with several years of agency experience — to serve as secretary of labor, according to a Monday social media post.  Sonderling, who was previously deputy secretary, took the helm as ...

Companies seek returns on their hefty investments in artificial intelligence and many big names have turned to tracking employee usage of it as one way to do so. Still, while almost every Fortune 500 company is now tracking overall AI ...

New research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Human Behaviour catalogues several kinds of political segregation in the workplace. Most notably, researchers say that Republicans “experience higher exposure to Democrats than vice versa,” with the average Republican’s coworkers tending to be ...

Dive Brief: Fair Workweek laws have improved scheduling predictability for service sector workers and led to a 13 percentage point increase in the number of workers who were given the schedules at least two weeks in advance, according to a ...