Elevate HR

11/11/2026

Christmas and holiday messages for colleagues, managers and the team: examples you can copy

In most American workplaces, the end-of-year greeting travels by several routes at once: a card left on a desk, a line at the bottom of your last email before you set the auto-reply, a quick Slack message, or a text to the colleague you actually ...

11/10/2026

6 min

Change debt, not change volume, is the burnout risk SHRM leaders should close

Restructurings get announced. Reporting lines shift. A new executive arrives. And before the team has worked out who owns what, the next initiative lands in everyone's inbox. The previous change never quite finished. It just got buried under the ...

11/03/2026

7 min

AI layoffs leave long-lasting scar on workers, Goldman warns

You've sent out dozens of applications since the summer. A few recruiters replied, fewer called back, and the roles you used to see every week seem to have quietly dried up. The news cycle keeps warning that AI is about to wipe out millions of ...

11/03/2026

8 min

16 states lift pay floors on January 1: a multi-state HR compliance brief

The Economic Policy Institute's Minimum Wage Tracker counts 16 states set to raise their wage floors on January 1, 2027, while 20 states, including North Carolina, will remain at the federal floor of $7.25 an hour - a rate the Fair Labor ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Return to office costs workers $6,700 a year, analysis finds

A Resume.io analysis of 1,000 full-time US employees puts the annual cost of in-office work, branded the RTO tax, at approximately $6,736 per worker , equivalent to 9.3% of a typical salary . For HR directors finalizing 2027 headcount budgets, ...

09/08/2026

6 min

US layoffs hit 4-year low in August as AI blame fades

Layoff announcements just hit their lowest August level in four years, and on paper that looks like welcome news. In practice, if you have been submitting applications since June and getting mostly auto-rejections, the headline number is ...

08/25/2026

6 min

One in three American workers has quietly moved their retirement target (United States)

One in three American workers has quietly moved their retirement target further into the future, and the math behind that shift is straightforward: housing, healthcare, debt, and family obligations are consuming the dollars that would otherwise ...

08/20/2026

6 min

ETS survey: 58% of U.S. workers report FOBO as employer training support falls short

A majority of American workers are running the numbers on their own relevance, and the math is not working in their favor. Fifty-eight percent of U.S. workers say they fear becoming obsolete because their skills are falling behind, according to a ...

08/13/2026

7 min

US small business health premiums to jump 14% in 2027, KFF says

A KFF analysis of preliminary rate filings across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. found that insurers are requesting a median 14% premium increase on small group health plans for 2027. That is bigger than the 11% increase insurers requested ...

07/06/2026

6 min

Why less than 40% of US workers use all their leave

Fewer than 40% of US workers report using all of their allotted vacation days, according to HR Dive reporting citing recent workforce survey data. That figure carries a particular weight in the United States, where the Fair Labor Standards Act ...

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