Wednesday, 4 November 2026Updated 4 min ago
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Managers, leaders and the people function.
The last decade of corporate churn might have revealed this surprising lesson: One of the biggest threats to retention isn’t compensation, remote work or even AI. It could be managerial insecurity. When leadership is rooted in a manager’s personal anxiety, organizational…
For five years, the former Meta employee had been feted as a high performer by her managers. She had even received a rare equity award in recognition of her performance, which had never fallen below an “exceeds expectations” rating. Imagine her surprise, then, when she was…
Job titles provide structure, but they rarely show how work actually gets done. As organisations grow, responsibilities shift, ownership blurs and decisions stall between teams. Nica Talines of Kinetic Innovative Staffing explains how HR leaders can use organisation design to…
Employers challenged to turn gender equality commitments into concrete action
North Korean hackers posed as recruiters to breach the crypto exchange, exposing recruitment fraud risks for HR leaders
Closing the participation gap starts with communication, not benefits coverage redesign, say two HR leaders
Every week, another company announces an AI mandate. Use it for meeting notes. Use it to write job descriptions. Use it to move faster. The directive comes from the top, and then it trickles down through layers of managers and teams, each one interpreting it a little…
Family caregivers spend more than 100 hours a month providing care but benefit leaders can help ease the strain.
Prior layoffs, an early retirement offer and a Nov. 17 earnings report frame Disney's next workforce move
Tackling the NEET challenge: Why HR leaders hold the key to unlocking young talent
Learning leaders face “pretty lofty expectations from both our CHROs and our boards,” a Gartner analyst said.
With 65% of workers fearing they'll fall short on retirement savings, benefit leaders have an opportunity to make retirement plans and guidance work harder.
The way a job injury is handled “can be a defining moment” for the employee and others who witness what comes next. Here’s how benefit leaders can prepare.
Most businesses understand the value of growing their own talent. Apprenticeships and early careers programmes can strengthen succession planning, address skills shortages, improve retention and give people a clear route to build a career. But employers often tell us a similar…
Leaders see AI working far better than their workforce does, and the divide nearly doubles inside large organisations
Experienced employees are unhappy, according to a new study by Eagle Hill Consulting. Here’s how HR and benefits leaders can head off attrition.
HR professionals might consider employee engagement the glue that holds company success together. No matter what you talk about – productivity, leadership, professional growth, retention, recognition, culture, well-being – everything ties back to employee engagement. Not to…
Employers everywhere are bracing for one of the trickiest challenges of the year as the country goes through another contentious election season. Inflammatory political speech in the workplace is disruptive and can lead to a host of workplace issues ranging from frustration and…
Open Cosmos has appointed Natasha Dillon chief people officer. In the role, Dillon will lead Open Cosmos’ people function, helping to attract, develop and retain the talent needed to deliver on its objectives. She will help create people structures, leadership capability and…
Even good managers commit some bad boss behaviors.
A new survey finds AI is changing how employees work, but HR leaders may need better ways to track performance, spot burnout and understand where workers' time goes.
Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast…
Imagine handing the best violinist in an orchestra the conductor’s baton overnight. They know the music, but conducting is a different job. Organisations do this every day, promoting their best experts into management and leaving them to work it out alone. With the UK ranked…
A less traditional approach to benefits could help small businesses keep plans affordable and accessible.
As employers scrutinize pricing and rebates, a new RxBenefits report outlines what HR leaders should ask about drug costs, GLP-1 coverage and clinical reviews.
Mark Airs/Ikon Images Leaders tend to talk about culture in abstract terms: values, norms, trust, belonging, and the like. But employees watch for the moments that show how culture actually manifests. During meetings, who gets interrupted? Employees notice whose sentences are…
A flawless CV used to be a good sign. Now it can be the opposite. With AI tools able to polish every bullet point, mirror every job description and smooth over every gap, the CVs landing on hiring managers’ desks have never looked better, or told them less. For PA, EA and HR…
Markus Graf joined Nestlé seven months ago and now sits with the responsibility of shaping the manufacturing giant’s talent strategy for the 188 countries in which it operates.
Business leaders are confident about the UK’s AI prospects, but employees remain considerably more cautious, with concerns about jobs persisting even among those benefiting from the technology...
Anthropic’s report on AI and work finds employees shifting from doing tasks to managing agents, fewer junior hires, and hiring managers prioritizing judgment over expertise.