As organizations race to keep up with AI advances, no area of people management is free from disruption. This includes benefits and compensation, as evidenced by the recent waves made by insurance giant State Farm. The more than 100-year-old insurance firm is...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order last month directing multiple state agencies to study how AI is reshaping the labor market. Experts suggest this could lead to new layoff notice requirements, severance norms and AI hiring compliance standards for...

According to a recent study from Mercer, nearly half (48%) of U.S. large employers, those with 500 or more employees, expect to make changes to their medical plans, such as raising deductibles or co-pays, that will result in higher out-of-pocket costs for employees...

New Gallup data from the State of the Global Workplace 2026 Report reveals that German employees report relatively strong life satisfaction, yet remain among the least engaged workers in the region. The gap points directly to a manager development problem that could...

A learning leader recently told me that her organization was providing a company-wide subscription to AI training. She had been impressed by the offerings and scope: The course catalog spanned everything from AI for beginners to advanced prompt engineering and agentic...

Andrew Bosworth, Meta’s chief technology officer, told employees this month that company morale is close to the worst he’s seen in two decades at the company, rivaling the period after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, according to Business Insider. The...

Regardless of how much effort an employer puts into crafting a well-worded job description, an increasing number of job seekers admit that they don’t read the entire listing before applying. One-third spend less than a minute reviewing job postings, new research from...

Nearly half of working-age Americans struggled to afford healthcare in 2025, and more than one-third said someone in their family had unmet healthcare needs because of high costs. “Affordability of healthcare is everyone’s concern, not just people who are uninsured,”...

A 2025 Gartner survey of 110 CHROs found that approximately 50% aim to use AI to reshape work by 2026. As AI automates many traditional administrative tasks, HR must find new ways to create strategic value. Increasingly, that value will come not just from managing the...