Post-Pandemic, Some Employers Let Parents Bring Their Babies to Work

​More than 70,000 child care providers may shut their doors in the coming months, as funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act has expired. Day care owners cite burnout and low... Read more »

Aligning Workplace Culture with Employee Mental Health: 6 Steps to Success

​Last year, nearly all (94 percent) HR professionals believed organizations could improve workplace mental health through the provision of benefits, according to SHRM’s Mental Health in America: A 2022 Workplace Report. But... Read more »

Research: Flexible Work Is Having a Mixed Impact on Employee Well-Being and Productivity

Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies.  Flexible work is having an impact on employee well-being, according to recent Gallup data. In... Read more »

Invisible Disabilities

Julia Beck’s career was thriving when she nearly lost her life. Thirty years ago, Beck was in her 20s and had just launched her first media consulting agency in McLean, Va. Her... Read more »

Google Loses Gender Discrimination Trial

​A jury recently ordered Google to pay $1.15 million to a New York executive who claimed the company discriminated against her based on her gender, retaliated against her when she complained, and... Read more »

X Unlawfully Fired Worker Who Protested Return to Office, NLRB Says

​The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »

Developing a Habit of Delivering Frequent but Informal Feedback

​Lindsay is an HR director at an aerospace manufacturing and design company with 200 employees, and she’s concerned that her analytical, introverted management team may not be communicating enough with staff engineers... Read more »

X Unlawfully Fired Worker Who Protested Return to Work, NLRB Says

​The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »

Which Employees Receive the Lowest-Quality Feedback

​Women and employees of color receive the lowest-quality feedback from their managers during performance reviews and are leaving their organizations at the highest rates, according to a recent analysis of 13,000 performance... Read more »

Law Firms Sued Over Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Programs

​At least two large law firms have changed their inclusion, equity and diversity (IE&D) programs recently, after being sued by an anti-affirmative action group, the American Alliance for Equal Rights, founded by... Read more »