Wednesday, 4 November 2026Updated 4 min ago
Topic
Hiring, onboarding, retention and turnover.
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…
The festive period can make or break Britain’s best-loved retailers. To deliver Christmas for the nation – and for the bottom line – Sainsbury’s and Argos are recruiting 17,500 seasonal staff. Here, we find out how the retail giant hires at pace.
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…
When it comes to inclusive hiring, the real measure of success isn't whether they accept your job offer, it's whether they feel they can stay.
Open any major job board today, and you are stepping into a digital flea market. Millions of listings, endless pagination, and a search bar that returns thousands of vaguely relevant titles. On the other end of that exchange, recruiters drown in an ocean of 1,200 applications…
High-volume hiring can put pressure on legacy recruiting processes as application volumes rise. In this session, you’ll see how SmartRecruiters for SAP SuccessFactors can help modernize recruiting with AI-enabled tools and automation. Follow a live walk-through of the platform…
North Korean hackers posed as recruiters to breach the crypto exchange, exposing recruitment fraud risks for HR leaders
PALO ALTO, Calif.— Upwork has launched Upwork Now, a new on-demand hiring feature designed to match clients with skilled freelancers available to start work immediately.Released in public beta, the tool aims to compress traditional recruitment timelines from days into minutes…
Prior layoffs, an early retirement offer and a Nov. 17 earnings report frame Disney's next workforce move
The E-Verify v32 update affects the E-Verify experience in Onboarding, including how Hiring Sites are managed and how case information is collected. We are preparing our changes and this will be launched in time of the March 2027 deadline.
candidate.fyi today launched its full agentic hiring platform, the largest release in the company’s history. The platform gives talent teams a lineup of AI agents that coordinate interviews, answer candidates around the clock and turn every interview into usable intelligence…
Our new website is live at pcrecruiter.com. We rebuilt it around the questions recruiting firms ask us before they book a demo, and we’ve tried to put the answers on the page instead of keeping them for a sales call. If you lead a recruiting agency or an executive search firm…
Connecticut is putting employers on notice over workplace AI. Effective Oct. 1, 2026, SB 5 clarifies that Connecticut employers facing a discrimination claim can’t blame the artificial intelligence (AI) tools they use to make hiring, promotion, discipline or termination…
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…
Carrier weighs temporary pay freezes, lower crewing ratios and more AI as half-year profit falls
Experienced employees are unhappy, according to a new study by Eagle Hill Consulting. Here’s how HR and benefits leaders can head off attrition.
The new on-demand hiring experience connects people and businesses with skilled professionals who are online and ready to work now, on Upwork or from inside the AI tools they’re already using PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — U pwork Inc.
Experts say senior team turnover is normal, but AI uncertainty is raising the stakes for CFOs and CHROs
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…
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…
She saw something, said something, then quit - but the court said that wasn’t enough
Listen to hear CEO of Ashby talk about their recruiting software and trends and Martyn Redstone from Warden Ai the governance consulting firm. NOTES: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17ZymeQZMB5dRM61bYvIOMMQsOX7-IeuP?usp%3Dsharing&source=gmail&u…
Every field in your Oracle HCM instance tells a story, but only if the data behind it is consistent. When a recruiter searches for candidates by degree type or job category and gets unreliable results, the root cause is often inconsistent reference data management. This is the…
Burnout, slower hiring and heavier workloads in healthcare are scarier than anything knocking at the door this Halloween
Halloween is tomorrow. We saved you a parking lot hit-and-run, a conference table covered in vomit, and a company car that probably deserves its own investigation. You’re welcome. For the final episode of Hiring Horror Stories, we’re closing out October with people who made sure…
When Microsoft announced its Voluntary Exit Offer last week , the headlines were immediate. “Microsoft Lays Off 60,000.” “Tech Giant Cuts Workforce.” “AI Takes Another Victim.” Quickly Instagram and TikTok were filled with angry videos: “another big company eliminates workers…
Hiring gains will depend on how companies use tax savings
The Chancellor paired support for businesses with plans to change how employers recruit, develop and reward their people...
Once a job guarantee is issued in a WFA notice, employers cannot pull it back, legal expert says
'A hiring process with irregularities is not, in itself, evidence of discrimination'