Medicaid program managers in Washington want to require many adults who have Medicaid coverage to work or engage in work-like activities at least 80 hours per month. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...

The 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report says North Korean IT worker schemes used stolen identities, remote hiring and laptop farms run by local accomplices. It estimates that those operations may have leveraged about 15,000 possible identities. The report,...

The most expensive sentence in your organization is five words long. The CFO says it about the reorganization. The CHRO says it about the AI strategy. Team leads say it in 1:1 meetings. “We will figure it out.” It sounds like leadership confidence, but the brain reads...

Uber is eliminating 23% of the jobs in its People and Places division, which covers human resources, recruitment, workplace facilities and culture. The restructuring is designed to create a “more connected, modern, operationally excellent organization,” according to...

Late last year, I was catching up with a CHRO who was six months into an enterprise-wide transformation. She was sharp, committed and clearly exhausted in the way that comes from caring too much rather than too little. When I asked how things were going, she said...

The class of 2026 may be the most AI-ready workforce cohort employers have ever seen, yet many hiring processes aren’t built to find them. Matt Kirk, head of market insight and solutions at global talent assessment firm SHL, draws that conclusion from more than a...

The high school and college students who graduated in May are turning their attention to the job market in June, with mixed results. “The labor market continues to be active, but it’s uneven,” according to Monster’s Jobs Hiring Now Report. “Some high-demand jobs are...

Earlier this year, I wrote in these pages about the employer brand blind spot AI has created—the gap between what companies believe about their reputation as an employer and what AI tools actually tell candidates when they ask. At the time, the argument rested on...

Employee engagement in the U.S. recently fell to its lowest level in a decade, with only 31% of employees reporting they are engaged and 17% describing themselves as actively disengaged. According to the latest Gallup’s annual workplace report, the numbers haven’t...