A laptop at a Best Buy store in Pinole, Calif., on June 7, 2024. Seventy percent of HR pros surveyed said that the amount of time they had to spend on routine work kept them from dealing with more important concerns.
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Keith Sonderling received a majority vote to secure his position as labor secretary, and a winter sports venue will pay $20,000 to settle religious bias claims.
Here’s a closer look at those numbers and some of the others making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
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The number of meetings that workers at Taskrabbit HQ have during Deep Think Weeks, the company’s manager of people experience said.
47-41
The voting result to confirm Keith Sonderling as labor secretary.
51%
The percentage of HR professionals who said they spend “at least half of their workweek” on repetitive administrative tasks, according to a new report from Eagle Hill Consulting.
$6,736
The average amount employees spend annually on working in the office, according to a resume builder Resume.io analysis, which called the cost an RTO tax.
$20,000
The amount that The Rock Snowpark will pay to settle claims that it fired a Christian employee over religious posts made to his personal social media accounts that a manager flagged as discriminatory toward gay people, per the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.