How the gender wage gap may be both structural and psychological

The glass ceiling and promotional bias hold women back, but so do women’s own expectations of themselves, according to recent reports.

By Caroline Colvin • March 18, 2026

The hospitality industry’s gender pay gap is ‘structural,’ analysis finds

Progress on the pay gap has generally stalled, various reports indicate, and it is particularly notable in food service.

By Kathryn Moody • March 18, 2026

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A deep dive on mental health at work

There are myraid factors that affect an individual employee’s mental health, but some trends have emerged in recent months.

By HR Dive staff

Top HR executives are gaining prominence, Conference Board says

“Growth in CHRO and CTO roles signals that talent, culture and digital capability are now viewed as enterprise risks, not support functions,” one researcher said.

By Jim Tyson • March 18, 2026

Employees say AI does more harm than good

There’s a “growing concern about the pace of AI adoption and a clear gap in employer support,” according to a Jobs for the Future vice president.

By Ginger Christ • March 17, 2026

Skills-based talent practices can create $125K in ROI per worker, report says

The research, which focused on the cybersecurity field, highlights what other studies have said: L&D is key to both retention and fixing skill gaps.

By Kathryn Moody • March 17, 2026

Feds keep marijuana tests for workers despite Trump reclassification order

Several years of legalization efforts at the state level have enhanced compliance concerns for employers.

By Ryan Golden • March 16, 2026

Office space must support learning and well-being to attract workers, design firm says

Tension around RTO may have eased in recent months, but employers still need to ensure physical spaces are responsive to employees’ needs, according to Gensler.

By Ryan Golden • March 16, 2026

Week in review: Workday lawsuit survives another day

We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from mandatory artificial intelligence usage to “corporate BS.”

By Kathryn Moody • March 16, 2026

Anthropic: AI’s influence over the labor market is only beginning to be felt

The Claude developer found that hiring seems to have slowed for younger workers in certain occupations.

By Lara Ewen • March 13, 2026

Most companies have ‘no formal approach’ to change communication, survey says

“If every message carries a sense of urgency, employees begin to tune out rather than listen closer,” a Gallagher exec said.

By Kathryn Moody • March 13, 2026

AI trailed DEI, immigration in 2025 compliance impact, employers say

The combination of regulatory and economic uncertainty prompted more than one-third of employers in a Littler survey to reduce headcount within the past year.

By Ryan Golden • March 12, 2026

This week in 5 numbers: Employees don’t see AI as a co-worker

Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including the amount of a recent Honda settlement tied to the Kronos outage.

By Ginger Christ • March 12, 2026

US companies say they plan to accelerate global hiring despite hurdles

As global expansion and AI adoption speed up, engagement has faltered, highlighting the challenges in the market, according to an Atlas HXM report.

By Laurel Kalser • March 12, 2026

Workers who are receptive to ‘corporate BS’ may struggle with analytic thinking

“Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ empty rhetoric in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency,” a Cornell researcher said.

By Lara Ewen • March 12, 2026

Layoffs, cost-cutting shatter IT worker confidence

Positive sentiment among technology workers suffered the biggest year-over-year drop across all industries in a Glassdoor report published Tuesday.

By Roberto Torres • March 11, 2026

Cybersecurity has a gender gap perception problem, ISC2 says

Women reported barriers to advancement as well as wage gaps and other challenges that men said they were “unaware of,” according to new research.

By Lara Ewen • March 11, 2026

6th Circuit shoots down NLRB’s Cemex standard

The appeals court sided with Brown-Forman Corp., Jack Daniels’ parent company, in nixing the landmark 2023 standard.

By Caroline Colvin • March 10, 2026

5 stories on the skills evolution

Companies say they want artificial intelligence skills, but their training efforts aren’t keeping pace, reports show.

By Ginger Christ • March 10, 2026

Snelling: Decades of recruiting show today’s labor market isn’t ‘unprecedented’

The company’s survey findings not only highlighted how hiring priorities are shifting in 2026 but also “what decades of workforce cycles reveal about what truly endures.”

By Lara Ewen • March 10, 2026

CEOs think AI use is mandatory — but employees don’t agree, survey says

Several disconnects exist between C-suite executives and employees on artificial intelligence tool use.

By Kathryn Moody • March 10, 2026

Workday plaintiffs submit amended complaint reupping physical disability and state-law bias claims

The filing is a response to a federal judge's partial dismissal earlier this month with leave to amend.

By Ryan Golden • Updated March 30, 2026

The key to companywide AI adoption? Empowering managers, Gartner says.

HR needs to lean more on managers to drive tool use, rather than rely on employees to experiment on their own, according to a report.

By Kathryn Moody • March 9, 2026

Entry-level jobs should be entry level

False advertising in job posts is losing employers smart and motivated applicants, a director of undergraduate career services writes.

By Cindy Meis • March 9, 2026

Week in review: Why pay for performance matters

We’re rounding up last week’s stories, from workaholism to workplace gossip.

By Kathryn Moody • March 9, 2026

‘Overwhelmingly disappointing’ job losses mar February

The latest jobs report indicates that the market has essentially had zero net job creation over the past six months, economists said.

By Kathryn Moody • March 6, 2026