As 2026 reaches its midpoint, HR leaders are seeing many of the year’s biggest workforce challenges move from emerging trends to immediate business priorities. Healthcare costs remain elevated, employees continue to expect more personalized support, AI adoption is...

Recent research from Wharton names what happens when uncritical acceptance of AI’s answers replaces a person’s own reasoning: cognitive surrender. In a paper titled Thinking — Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive...

A Georgia woman has filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging that Waffle House improperly charged tobacco-using employees a $92 monthly surcharge on health insurance. Corkeitha Hicks, who worked as a server at a Waffle House restaurant in Forsyth, Ga., said she...

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s second-in-command, announced this week that she is leaving her full-time role as CEO of artificial general intelligence deployment and moving to a part-time advisory position. This comes three months after going on medical leave for what she...

Register Now Date & Time: Tuesday, September 01, 2026 at 1:00 pm ET Speakers: Alan Nelson, Co-Managing Partner, CRA | Admired Leadership Brittany Podolak, Chief Human Resources Officer, athenahealth Sponsored by: Description: In this session, Alan Nelson of...

My co-author Ranya Nehmeh asks a deceptively simple question of people in HR: What is your organization’s people strategy? The reason it turns out to be a tricky and embarrassing question is because we all feel we should have one but we usually can’t articulate it....

The pressure on American companies to demonstrate AI capability has never been more intense. Boards are asking how their organizations are using AI. Investors want to know which teams are AI-enabled. CEOs are leading with it publicly: in earnings calls, at industry...

Germany’s governing coalition has agreed to require workers to provide a doctor’s note to their employer on the first day of illness, the BBC reported. The change would replace the current three-day threshold and prompt employers with operations in Germany to revisit...

Millions of Americans have dropped health insurance coverage in the wake of Congress’ decision to allow the enhanced COVID-era healthcare subsidies to expire at the end of 2025. Now, affordability is in the spotlight—particularly around the cost of healthcare. Many...