Guide

11/10/2026

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 ...

11/10/2026

7 min

US jobless claims fall to 189,000, lowest in 57 years

The latest weekly snapshot from the Department of Labor (DOL) draws a sharp line between two groups of American workers: those inside a job right now, and those trying to get back into one. The headline number is reassuring. The fine print is ...

11/10/2026

7 min

Layoffs in 2027 expected by nearly 2 in 3 HR leaders, survey

If your company has gone quieter than usual about headcount plans, or colleagues keep mentioning that AI will reshape how work gets done, you are probably not the only one doing the math. A benchmark released in late October 2026 gives that ...

11/06/2026

7 min

H-1B extensions: deference rule would hit Indian workers hardest

A proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would strip away a protection that has quietly made H-1B extensions more predictable since 2021: the requirement that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers ...

11/03/2026

6 min

Faking skills at work: 1 in 3 workers admit it, survey finds

Addison Group's 2026 Skill Security Report puts a number on a hiring-process vulnerability that many talent acquisition leaders have suspected but rarely quantified: 36% of working and job-seeking Americans , approximately 64 million people, say ...

11/03/2026

6 min

An AI tool now drafts your weekly report in 20 minutes instead of two

An AI tool now drafts your weekly report in 20 minutes instead of two hours. So what happens to the time you just got back? According to Dayforce's 17th annual Pulse of Talent report, published on October 26, 2026, the answer most US workers ...

10/06/2026

5 min

Why tech firms are rehiring the workers they cut for AI

If you were laid off from a tech role in the past year and told that automation would absorb your work, the company that let you go may be circling back. A Wakefield Research survey conducted in August 2026 on behalf of GFT Technologies found ...

09/22/2026

6 min

Maine's indexed wage floor hits $15.70: the FLSA framework and Q4 payroll audit

Maine's minimum wage is heading to $15.70 per hour on January 1, 2027, up from $15.10 in 2026. The Maine Department of Labor confirmed the adjustment in a September 18, 2026 press release, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as ...

09/17/2026

6 min

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring (United States)

The headline numbers from the Department of Labor (DOL) look reassuring on the surface: initial jobless claims for the week ended September 5, 2026, fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 206,000, and the four-week moving average settled at the ...

09/16/2026

5 min

Arizona's indexed wage floor: what the 2027 FLSA gap means for HR planning

On 1 January 2027, Arizona's statewide minimum wage moves from $15.15 to $15.65 an hour, the product of a 3.4% August-over-August CPI reading applied through the state's inflation-indexing statute, Proposition 206 (the Fair Wages and Healthy ...

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