The Walt Disney Co. cut several hundred jobs Tuesday across corporate functions, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television and its film studios, according to reporting from The Hollywood Reporter. This is Disney’s third major round of layoffs this year under CEO Josh...
When an employee loses their job today, they are handed a map to a city that no longer exists. The systems that were meant to catch them—from unemployment insurance and corporate outplacement to federal reemployment programs—were designed for a workforce that cycled...
At a Senate confirmation hearing last week for Keith Sonderling, nominated to be the next U.S. Secretary of Labor, a number of Trump-era labor policies high on HR professionals’ radar took center stage. During the hearing before the Health, Education, Labor and...
About 4,500 Google employees have signed a petition urging the company to adopt stronger protections against layoffs, delivered last week to CEO Sundar Pichai’s office at Google’s California headquarters by members of the Alphabet Workers Union. What Google’s union...
Companies that invest heavily in AI have grown headcount by 10.2% in the two years after adoption, and entry-level headcount has grown by about 12%, according to a working paper from fintech Ramp and Revelio Labs covering more than 21,000 U.S. firms. That research,...
Every few weeks, a fresh wave of anxiety sweeps through the professional landscape as another headline predicts which industry AI will hollow out next. Will it be finance, marketing, legal or HR? The short answer is both uncomfortable and liberating: No role is...
Most wellbeing programmes are built to help people cope with a stressful workplace, not to fix what is making it stressful in the first place. It is a fair critique—and one Mukul Anand, Managing Director and Head of People at HSBC Singapore, does not sidestep when...
Insurers may exclude drugs from formularies or impose utilization management to control healthcare costs while safeguarding the quality of care. Although such practices have been shown to reduce drug spending, they also may decrease access to certain drugs and...
New York lawmakers passed S8877 on June 2, a bill that would require larger employers and job-posting platforms to disclose whether an ad is for a current vacancy and when they expect to fill it. Violations could carry fines starting at $2,500 per posting platform,...
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