Employees may not understand which skills they need — and are losing resources that may help them develop said skills, according to an Oct. 7 report from WTW, a global advisory company. Work is changing quickly, the report noted, but ...
Dive Brief: Researchers found no evidence that including a noncompete agreement in an employment contract reduced the leakage of sensitive data “beyond what a standard nondisclosure agreement already provides,” according to research recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. ...
Dive Brief: While close to 85% of HR leaders told Betterworks they are “very” or “extremely” confident that performance management can help with organizational priorities, only 44% said they could provide business metrics to back up their position. The findings ...
Dive Brief: A former Texas FedEx Office store employee failed to show that the company discriminated against her for reporting harassment six separate times by denying her a promotion, in part because the alleged conduct didn’t rise to the level ...
Whole Foods successfully defeated a former manager’s race discrimination, retaliation and Family and Medical Leave Act claims in part because the company showed evidence that the plaintiff misrepresented his hours worked, according to a federal judge’s decision Thursday. The plaintiff ...
Dive Brief: The outlook for women in the C-suite continues to be less than stellar, according to 50-50 Women on Board’s data analysis. A Q2 analysis shows that women hold 29.2% of Russell 3000 board seats, down from 30.1% a ...
A Texas-based logistics company will pay half a million dollars to resolve federal claims that it rejected female job applicants because of their sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Tuesday. EEOC claimed that, since 2020, Birchstone Management declined ...
Most-clicked story of the week The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit at the end of last month claiming technology sector employment agency Sibitalent Corp. openly preferred to hire only H-1B visa holders. One California job seeker allegedly ...
Standard Chartered ran the numbers on its own hiring and found that reskilling and redeploying an existing employee saved roughly $49,000 compared with hiring someone new for the same skills. Between 2023 and mid-2025, the bank raised internal hiring from ...
If you could give your employees more peace of mind and improve their financial wellbeing — using a benefit you already offer — would you? HR leaders nationwide are looking for ways to support employees in a world of rising ...