Employers create learning opportunities in response to worker demand — but when the programs are presented, uptake tends to be low, various studies show. “The vast majority of employees say that they want training, and don’t feel like they’re actually ...
Dive Brief: Only 17% of U.S. adults said workplace artificial intelligence is reliable without human oversight, according to the recently released Connext Global 2026 AI Oversight Report. Thirty-five percent said reliability came from “AI plus light review” and an additional ...
For years, employee development has followed a familiar pattern: HR designs structured programs, employees complete assigned learning and managers reinforce it during scheduled moments like performance reviews. That model isn’t broken. But it is increasingly out of sync with how ...
Dive Brief: Operators of an Oklahoma medical clinic agreed Thursday to settle claims brought by the U.S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the clinic failed to accommodate a medical assistant with a high-risk pregnancy, forced her to take unpaid leave ...
Dive Brief: Cigna did not discriminate against a patient by refusing to cover her weight-loss medications because she did not plausibly allege that her obesity was a disability, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Thursday (Whittemore v. Cigna ...
Dive Brief: “Job hugging,” the workplace trend where employees cling to their job, isn’t going away, but 56% of employees surveyed said they are staying out of necessity rather than genuine commitment, according to a MetLife report released Feb. 18. Financial ...
Dive Brief: Democratic senators and representatives have reintroduced a bill (S.B. 3865 and H.R. 7583) to address harassment and sexual orientation- or gender identity-based discrimination in the workplace, according to a press release from Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of ...
Most clicked story of the week The employment rate of Black women fell by 1.4 percentage points to 55.7% in 2025, marking one of the sharpest one-year declines in the last 25 years, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a ...
HR compliance has always required attention to detail. What has changed is the scale and interconnectedness of the work. Compliance obligations now span jurisdictions, people types, internal departments, HR systems and every stage of the worker lifecycle. Hiring, onboarding, pay, ...
Amazon must face a former applicant’s charge that he was not properly notified of his rights under Massachusetts law concerning lie detector tests when he was required to take a “workstyle assessment” that included choosing among a variety of workstyle ...