Dive Brief: Amid a deluge of applicants in standard hiring channels, some recruiters are turning to unorthodox methods to find candidates, according to April 28 survey results from Zety, a resume templates service. Of the 1,001 employees responsible for hiring ...

Dive Brief: Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said Wednesday the company expects its workforce to shrink further in the next fiscal year, underscoring a broader industry trend toward tighter headcount management amid rising artificial intelligence investment. Total Microsoft headcount declined year-over-year ...

Dive Brief: While HR professionals are instrumental in setting salary for other workers, recent data suggests expectations for their own roles may conflict with what’s offered. HR pros on average expect to make $133,322, while the average salary offered is ...

January brought a number of job changes for HR leaders, including several promotions.  Chipotle Ilene Eskenazi, Chipotle’s chief human resources officer, has been appointed chief legal and human resources officer, effective immediately, the fast-casual giant announced Jan. 12. Prior to ...

Dive Brief: A former SC Johnson employee can continue with his lawsuit alleging that a “burdensome” leave approval process interfered with his Family and Medical Leave Act rights, a federal district court held Monday. The employer had outsourced leave administration ...

M&T Bank allegedly denied a promotion to – and terminated in retaliation – a former executive because she was both gay and a woman, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in New York. A former vice president and commercial branch ...

Massive employers Deloitte and Zoom recently came into the spotlight for their decisions to cut worker benefits.  At Deloitte, a group of workers will see parental leave, PTO, pensions and IVF funding scaled back starting in January, Business Insider reported. ...

By: Ginger Christ • Published April 28, 2026 Traditional career development simply isn’t keeping up with today’s ever-evolving workforce needs, Julie Giulioni, who leads DesignArounds, a workplace training provider, told attendees during a SHRM Talent session.  At risk are higher ...

As two industrial giants join forces in developing artificial intelligence across production processes to customer experience solutions, they must recognize the importance of staff training. In an April 16 release, Stellantis announced a five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to accelerate ...

Workforce data may be both too overwhelming and too spread out across platforms to be truly useful for organizations right now, according to an April 21 report from consulting firm Korn Ferry. Ironically, 71% of the 1,600 C-suite and senior ...