The HR industry outlook for 2024: Growth, with a side of AI

HR pros will have a chance to put new skills to use, namely data analysis and AI management, in 2024. 

By Kate Tornone • Jan. 23, 2024

How AI can save HR time on the job, according to one practitioner

Artificial intelligence — including generative AI like ChatGPT — has the potential to aid HR throughout the talent cycle.

By Caroline Colvin • Jan. 23, 2024

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Top 5 stories from HR Dive

HR Dive’s top stories feature a number of evolving trends, including a shifting employment law landscape and external forces that are reshaping compensation and benefits.

By HR Dive staff

5 minutes with ViaPath Technologies’ CHRO

To be successful, HR pros need to find the balance between employee and business needs, ViaPath Technologies' CHRO Jessica Artz told HR Dive.

By Ginger Christ • Jan. 22, 2024

Empathetic exits: How to avoid missteps during layoffs

There’s rarely a good month for companies to lay off employees.

Jan. 22, 2024

Bring your therapist to work day? No, it’s not a best practice.

A boss disguised a personal therapy session as a business strategy meeting — a move a psychologist said amounted to “emotional blackmail.”

By Ginger Christ • Jan. 19, 2024

Noncompliant workers are a $1.6M liability, study shows

Proper and thorough compliance education can help eliminate worker understanding gaps, study authors said.

By Caroline Colvin • Jan. 18, 2024

Costco’s response to union vote is a lesson in graceful leadership

The Teamsters victory was a “failure on our part,” company leadership said. HR Dive reporter Caroline Colvin thinks HR pros, managers and the C-suite have a lot to learn from this simple gesture.

By Caroline Colvin • Jan. 8, 2024

5 trends that will shape HR in 2024

Artificial intelligence and the return-to-office debate will persist, but so will more understated storylines — like the dreaded “panini squeeze” faced by middle managers.

By Ryan Golden • Jan. 8, 2024

Recruiting in 2024: Flexibility is king

The unease from 2023 likely won’t carry into 2024, hiring experts say.

By Ginger Christ • Jan. 8, 2024

Outdoor workers are at risk even on ‘cooler’ summer days, heat study finds

Researchers for Turner Construction found that laborers came to work dehydrated and had elevated core temperatures even under moderate conditions.

By Zachary Phillips • Jan. 4, 2024

RTO limited to new hires, survey shows

The number of new employees working in the office rose in 2023, Perceptyx found, while other groups recorded small increases or even decreases in in-office roles.

By Ginger Christ • Jan. 3, 2024

80% of businesses plan to track office attendance this year, survey finds

The return-to-office tug-of-war rages on.

By Emilie Shumway • Jan. 2, 2024

HR’s domains have expanded — but HR pros feel they are behind

While the nuts and bolts haven’t changed, HR pros told The Josh Bersin Company that the scope of their jobs definitely has.

By Jen A. Miller • Dec. 22, 2023

5 minutes with Greenhouse’s chief people officer

Donald Knight talks ice cream, poetry and the huge responsibility of working in HR.

By Ginger Christ • Dec. 22, 2023

Organizations say they plan to cut, optimize space to accommodate hybrid work

A decrease in average office utilization suggests that office attendance has plateaued.

By Joe Burns • Dec. 21, 2023

Home for the holidays: Employees report declining interest in workplace social events

Younger employees express stronger interest, however, suggesting they see such events as an opportunity to build professional relationships, a Visier report said.

By Emilie Shumway • Dec. 19, 2023

Fully remote work plummets, EY finds

As the hybrid model proliferates, smaller companies have increased office space while larger ones have decreased it but enhanced amenities, according to a survey.

By Nish Amarnath • Dec. 11, 2023

HR pros report increased pressure to justify program spend

Although HR teams express confidence in their day-to-day work, many report difficulty in proving the value to their executive teams.

By Carolyn Crist • Dec. 11, 2023

OpenAI’s 3-CEO weekend: A cautionary tale for leadership transitions

Transparency throughout a chief executive change is key, a Gartner researcher told HR Dive.

By Ginger Christ • Updated Nov. 22, 2023

3 ways company leaders are failing middle managers

The data is in: Middle managers feel overworked and underappreciated by their employers.

Nov. 20, 2023

Starbucks Workers United stages second ‘Red Cup Rebellion’ strike

In its second annual demonstration against one of Starbucks’ key holiday promotions, the union seeks to increase customer involvement.

By Aneurin Canham-Clyne • Nov. 16, 2023

Volunteering doesn’t just make workers feel warm and fuzzy. It also increases engagement.

With volunteerism on the rise, more workers are engaged in yearlong tidings of good will.

By Caroline Colvin • Nov. 15, 2023

Analysts predict employee experience ‘recession’ in 2024

Organizational leaders will take a “less employee-centric viewpoint” next year that “won’t be doing anyone any favors,” one Forrester researcher said.

By Ryan Golden • Nov. 14, 2023

Aflac CHRO: ‘Be reasonable’ about return to work

Be prepared to be flexible when implementing RTO policies, said Aflac’s CHRO Jeri Hawthorne.

By Ginger Christ • Nov. 9, 2023

Life, death and traffic tickets: Employees increasingly want legal benefits, MetLife says

At the end of the day, a worker can’t extricate their personhood from their professional self.

By Caroline Colvin • Nov. 9, 2023