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Q3 2026 Benefits Wrap-Up: What the Latest Data Shows on Flexibility, Mental Health, and Pay
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Benefits & Total Rewards The third quarter of 2026 brought clarity to the U.S. benefits landscape. After years of experimentation during the pandemic and the post-pandemic recalibration, the data shows a workforce benefits market that has settled into a stable, evidence-based configuration. Organizations that understand what’s working — and what…
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The Quiet Resignation — What 2025 Exit Data Reveals About Passive Quitting
The term “quiet quitting” — doing the minimum required while mentally disengaging — captured the cultural imagination in 2022. But what started as a workplace phenomenon has evolved into something more structurally significant: the “quiet resignation,” a pattern where employees remain in…
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The 4-Day Work Week Goes Mainstream: What 1,200 Companies Learned About Productivity, Retention, and the Bottom Line
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Future of Work / Remote Policy After years of pilot programs and skepticism from Fortune 500 executives, the four-day work week has crossed the threshold from experimental perk to strategic imperative. In 2026, over 1,200 companies across…
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HR Tech Funding in November 2025: The Consolidation Round — $1.2B in Deals Reshaping the Landscape
November 2025 was one of the most active months for HR technology consolidation in the past five years. Three major acquisitions and eight significant funding rounds totaling approximately $1.2 billion reshaped the mid-market landscape and signaled a shift from growth-at-all-costs to strategic…
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FL Court: Employers Can Penalize Off-Duty Medical Marijuana Use
Published: August 3, 2026 | By Michael Torres, Sr. Correspondent, Industry News Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal has issued a ruling that could reshape how employers across the state handle medical marijuana patients in the workplace, confirming that companies can take…
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Managing Hybrid Teams After the Policy Wars
Author: Sr. Correspondent, HR Tech / Workforce Strategy By September 2026, the fiercest phase of the return-to-office fight has passed. Most knowledge-work employers have settled on some form of hybrid arrangement, and the debate has shifted from whether to allow it to…
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Internal Mobility in the Age of AI — Who Gets Promoted When Algorithms Help Decide?
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Talent Strategy Promotion has always been part science, part art, and part politics. But a growing wave of companies are introducing an additional decision-maker into the process — an algorithm. From AI-driven promotion recommendation engines to skills-matching…
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Gen Z Is Rewriting Benefits Tech — And Companies That Ignore It Will Lose the War for Talent
Gen Z workers, now a fast-growing share of the global workforce, are not just entering the workplace — they are actively reshaping the benefits technology landscape that companies use to attract and retain them. Unlike previous generations who accepted a one-size-fits-all benefits…
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The Learning ROI Revolution: How Companies Are Measuring What Training Actually Does
Learning and Development Is Finally Getting the ROI Treatment The learning and development function has spent decades measuring activity — hours trained, courses completed, satisfaction scores — without being able to connect training investment to business outcomes. In 2026, that is changing…
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The Platform That Outlived Its Architect: What Citi’s Alumni Network Tells HR Leaders About Where Authority in This Category Now Sits
For more than a decade, the standard case study in corporate alumni programming was one man and one bank. Andrea Legnani, Global Head of Alumni Relations at Citi, built what became one of the largest corporate alumni networks in the world: a…
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Week 42 Briefing: Mar 3-9, 2025
Article 1: March Workforce Trends — Q1 Hiring Data Shows Cautious Optimism Early March 2025 workforce data paints a picture of cautious optimism among employers as Q1 2025 progresses, with hiring activity showing modest improvement from the seasonal winter lull while remaining…