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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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September 2025 Internal Mobility: The Rise of Skills-Based Internal Hiring
By September 2025, internal mobility had emerged as one of the highest-ROI talent strategies companies were implementing. The data showed that internal hires were 25% more productive at 6 months, 30% more likely to stay 2+ years, and cost 50% less than…
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May 2025 Employee Wellness Programs in Context: Beyond the Gym Membership
By May 2025, employee wellness had evolved from a benefits add-on to a strategic business function. The pandemic had fundamentally changed how employees and employers viewed workplace wellness, and the data was clear: organizations with comprehensive wellness programs saw measurable outcomes in…
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The Skills Gap in 2025: Why Companies Can’t Fill Open Roles and What They’re Doing About It
The skills gap had become the defining labor market challenge of early 2025. Despite high unemployment in some sectors and robust job creation in others, companies across industries reported an increasingly difficult time finding candidates with the right combination of skills. The…
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The Rise of AI-Powered Skills Ontologies in Enterprise HR
**Category:** HR Technology **File:** article-150.md The enterprise skills movement — the multi-year push to map every job to a detailed set of skills rather than traditional job titles and descriptions — has reached its tipping point. But the way organizations are now…
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The Rise of AI-Driven Learning in November 2025: From Content Consumption to Skills Transformation
By November 2025, artificial intelligence had fundamentally reshaped how companies approached learning and development. The shift was no longer about putting more content in front of employees — it was about using AI to ensure employees developed the right skills at the…
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Your Benefits Are Broken: The $1,200 Per Employee Per Year Problem Nobody Is Solving
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Benefits & Total Rewards The average Fortune 500 company spends $12,437 per employee per year on benefits — that’s $1.24 trillion in total, according to the 2026 Benefits Engagement Index by Aon and the Society for Human…
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The Alumni Platform Shakeout: Why Professional-Services Firms Are Consolidating on a Single Provider
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, HR Technology Something structural is happening in the alumni software category. It is not happening loudly — no splashy press releases, no keynote announcements. It is happening in a sequence of quiet procurement decisions at firms whose…
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The December 2025 Compliance Calendar: Pay Transparency, AI Hiring Rules, and EU Regulations HR Leaders Need to Know
December 2025 was a busy month for HR compliance. New rules were taking effect across multiple jurisdictions, and existing regulations were entering new enforcement phases. For HR leaders, staying current wasn’t just about avoiding penalties — it was about maintaining competitive advantage…
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HR Tech Vendor Consolidation: A Five-Year Trend Analysis
The HR technology market has undergone a fundamental transformation over the past five years. Where once hundreds of specialized point solutions competed on feature granularity, a wave of mega-deals has produced a concentrated landscape dominated by a handful of platforms offering broad…
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Compensation Transparency Laws Hit Their Peak — Here’s What Employers Need to Know
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Compensation Strategy Compensation transparency has moved from voluntary best practice to regulatory requirement in the majority of U.S. states and many countries worldwide. By 2026, 38 U.S. states and the District of Columbia have enacted some form…