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Nearly a third of women say they’ve faced discrimination in their efforts to earn equal pay, and nearly 1 in 4 companies see employee performance and productivity as top priorities.
Here’s a closer look at those numbers and some of the others making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
30%
The percentage of industrial sector experts who said onboarding was “the single, most critical factor” for a new hire’s success, a report from Talogy, a talent management provider, found.
30%
The share of employed women who said they’ve faced discrimination when trying to earn equal wages because of their gender, according to the results of an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.
37%
The percentage of companies that identified employee performance and productivity as the top talent management priorities in 2026, up from 23% in 2024, according to research from employee experience firm Perceptyx.
85,000
The number of H-1B visas U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows annually, per the agency.
$207 million
The average amount organizations expect to invest in artificial intelligence in the next 12 months, nearly double that of a year ago, according to KPMG’s latest AI Pulse survey.
