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57% of organizations now post salary ranges in job ads while only 51.4% have a formal job architecture underneath them. Disclosure has outrun the structure required to explain it, and 21% still set pay largely by manager discretion.
Starting October 1, legal guidance is explicit that a PEO or EOR relationship doesn't transfer right-to-work liability away.
A Harris Poll survey of small-business owners and Payscale's 2026 comp report describe the same employer: eager to modernize total rewards, still running both halves on instinct.
The transposition deadline carried no extension. Only four of 27 member states met it, but the reporting clock is already running for everyone else.
Employees trust managers to hear a harassment complaint second only to HR. New data says manager skill gaps are one of 2026's defining workplace risks.
BambooHR and TalentLMS surveyed 1,156 employees hired in the past year: 73% rated their onboarding satisfactory, while 39% were simultaneously questioning whether they'd made the right move.
Remote work has turned multi-state payroll compliance from an enterprise headache into a small-business one. With 13 states plus D.C. running mandatory paid leave programs and nexus triggered by a single remote employee, most small HR teams are managing complexity they were never built for.
Two-thirds of M&A deals fail to deliver value. Research consistently points to the same culprit: people. When the deal crosses a border, the compliance exposure arrives with them.
77% of employees intend to stay, but only 18% because they want to. The metric that looks best on your dashboard is the one telling you least.
Harvard says entry-level hiring collapsed at AI-adopting firms. A 21,000-employer study says the opposite. Both are right — and the difference is a talent strategy choice.
Wage growth has slowed and quits are at a decade low, but new Payscale data shows pay compression is still real — and counteroffers aren't fixing it.
Salary budgets are settling at 3.4–3.5% for a third straight year, and employers are walking away from across-the-board raises as new transparency rules raise the stakes.
The EU's Platform Work Directive, escalating IR35 enforcement, and steep per-worker penalties abroad are closing the contractor loophole — and EOR adoption is surging in response.
Companies are cutting management layers and handing the survivors more direct reports. Gallup's 2026 research says team size is the wrong variable to watch.
62% of HR teams use AI regularly, but only 39% have a formal process to review what it produces. The data foundation is the part nobody counted.
Europe pushed high-risk AI duties to December 2027 and Colorado gutted its AI Act. The rules that actually bind employers took effect on schedule.
Forward-thinking companies are retiring the subjective "culture fit" standard, replacing it with data-driven assessments that measure what candidates bring.
Employer-sponsored benefits are evolving fast. New survey data reveals the top five benefits employees say would make them more loyal to their employer.
Three independent projections put 2027 gross medical trend between 9.0% and 10%. With benefits budgets flat, employers have to decide who absorbs the difference.
As generative AI reshapes every function of the enterprise, CHROs face a defining moment: transform the talent model or risk irrelevance.
As salary range disclosure laws spread to 18 states, new research reveals a counterintuitive outcome: employees with access to pay data report lower satisfaction.
The Department of Labor's updated salary threshold takes effect in 60 days. Here's exactly what HR needs to audit, update, and communicate before the deadline.
Workday, SAP, and a dozen well-funded startups are all pitching the same vision: an AI assistant that handles everything from policy queries to workforce planning.
Two years of RTO mandates, and the research is in. The productivity gains executives expected haven't materialised, but something else has, and it's complicated.
New research from Lightcast shows early adopters outperforming peers on quality of hire and retention, if they avoid these common pitfalls.
Organisations investing in targeted reskilling programmes are seeing stronger internal mobility and lower attrition. New benchmarking data reveals what works.
Employment attorneys break down the five key passages every HR team should flag before deploying new AI tools in hiring or performance management.
Federal enforcement activity around I-9 documentation is surging. Immigration attorneys share the three most common violations they're seeing and how to avoid them.
A comprehensive new study breaks down exactly where bad hire costs accumulate and which screening practices best predict long-term performance.
The annual leadership retreat and 360 feedback cycle aren't cutting it anymore. A new model built around real-time coaching and cohort learning is gaining ground fast.
Amid political headwinds and programme rollbacks, a cohort of CHROs is finding new ways to advance belonging and equity without triggering legal or reputational risk.
Companies that have moved beyond EAP checkboxes to deeply integrated mental health support are seeing measurable gains in retention and engagement scores.
The gap between the analytics capabilities companies have and the ones they actually use is widening. Here's how leading teams are closing it.
What separates organisations where employees genuinely feel they belong from those where belonging is just a slide in the onboarding deck? We studied six.
CHROs are being asked to lead AI literacy initiatives across their organisations, while simultaneously upskilling their own teams. Here's how the best are doing it.
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