How your people strategy can boost market performance
Summary: Investors are treating people strategy as a real performance signal. By connecting its work to financial results, focusing on a small number of priorities and showing one clear win.…
Has AI turned work into a fire hydrant?: More output, not more value
Summary: AI hasn’t cut anyone’s workload, it’s just made people produce more, faster. The problem is nobody’s changed what happens after: work still gets stuck in the same approvals, the…
Why “ChatGPT recommended it” won’t cut it for HR software decisions
Most HR teams have spent a decent amount of time building a governance framework around AI use. They’ve: Drafted acceptable use policies Set rules about what data employees can feed…
Reduce ambiguity, raise performance: Your guide to inclusive leadership
Summary: By reducing avoidable ambiguity, recognising that people do not all arrive with the same reserves of energy and designing teams where different people can contribute their strengths without carrying…
Five steps: Perfect the science of disagreeing well
We might have a different view from one of our business colleagues on the right way to approach a people-related topic. Or we might be pulled in as a trusted…
Safety risk insufficient to show religious accommodation posed undue hardship, court rules
The case adds to the 9th Circuit’s analysis of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and religious accommodation, a topic on which the court has sometimes sided with employers.
Alleged DEI-motivated hirings and promotions cost Accenture $25M in DOJ settlement
The U.S. Department of Justice said certain candidates were highlighted to leadership and directed into a “pipeline” due to their race and sex characteristics.
Judge says disability bias lawsuit against SHRM must proceed
A candidate previously alleged that the HR organization rescinded a job offer after she requested to have her trained service dog accompany her to the office as a reasonable accommodation.
Is AI killing worker cognition?
Employees have reported in various surveys that AI tool use has worsened their critical thinking skills, affected their judgment and even made them less intelligent.
AI engineers say they know AI’s ethical risks, but workplace culture silences them
Research on the topic was presented the same week an ex-Anthropic engineer warned that his peers “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”