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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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Workday Redraws the Build-vs-Buy Line for Enterprise AI Agents
July 2026 — At DevCon 2026, Workday made a developer-focused argument that could reshape how enterprises think about building versus buying AI capabilities in HR and finance. The company announced four interconnected products: Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools, Agent Passport, and a Workday…
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Q4 Layoff Watch — Which Sectors Are Still Reducing Headcount
The fourth quarter of 2025 tells a story of diverging labor trajectories across the U.S. economy. While overall unemployment held near 4.0% through October and November, the composition of workforce reductions revealed a landscape far from uniform. The technology sector continued its…
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The Great CHRO Succession: A Wave of Fortune 500 Exits and What Comes Next
Fortune 500 CHROs Are Leaving—in Unusual Numbers As of Q3 2026, an unusually large share of Fortune 500 companies are either without a permanent CHRO or have had a CHRO departure in the past 12 months, according to market observers tracking executive…
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The Benefits of Skills-Based Hiring: 2025 Mid-Year Data Review
Skills-based hiring moved from a progressive HR initiative to a mainstream strategic priority in early 2025. The White House Task Force on the Worker, the Path Forward, issued its final report in February 2025, urging federal agencies and contractors to adopt skills-based…
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Holiday Hiring Surge 2025: How Tech Solutions Are Reshaping Seasonal Workforce Management
By HR Leadership Weekly | Published: November 28, 2025 The holiday hiring season of 2025 is poised to be the most transformative yet for seasonal workforce management. With inflation-adjusted consumer spending projections reaching record highs, companies across retail, logistics, fulfillment, and technology…
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June 2025 The Four-Day Workweek Experiment: Six Months of Data
By June 2025, six months had passed since the largest coordinated four-day workweek trial began. The 30-company, 6,000-employee pilot — organized by 4 Day Week Global and academic partners from Cambridge and Boston University — was producing the most rigorous data yet…
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Back-to-Work Hiring Surge — Late Summer Recruiting Trends
August has traditionally been a quiet month for hiring — a summer lull as candidates and hiring managers take vacation. But 2026 is proving that the old seasonal patterns are breaking. HR leaders report an unusual surge in hiring activity during the…
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HR Analytics Maturity: Why Most Companies Are Still Guessing About People Data
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, Workforce Strategy Despite over a decade of investment in HR technology and people analytics, the vast majority of organizations remain stuck at the lowest levels of analytics maturity. According to the 2026 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends…
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July 2025 HR Tech Funding Q2 2025: The AI Wave Continues
The second quarter of 2025 saw HR technology funding reach $3.8 billion across 142 deals, a 15% increase from Q1 2025 and the highest quarterly total since Q4 2022. AI-native companies captured 62% of total funding, and deal activity was concentrated in…
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The AI-Driven HR Tech Stack: What the Modern HR Department Actually Needs
By Andrew Mitchell, Senior Correspondent, AI in HR The HR technology landscape has fundamentally changed. Five years ago, the HR tech stack was a collection of point solutions — one system for recruiting, one for payroll, one for benefits, one for performance…