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Total Rewards

Benefits Strategy

The Total Rewards Equation: Balancing Cost, Care and Culture

Recent updates to ICE policies are changing how I-9 errors are classified, increasing potential risk for employers. Join Equifax to understand what’s changed, which mistakes carry greater consequences, and how to strengthen compliance with confidence.

Compliance

HR Compliance Audits

The New I-9 Error Playbook: Classification, Risk, and Response

Background screening hasn’t broken, but growing complexity has introduced new risks through process gaps and inconsistent execution. Explore how organizations are strengthening compliance, maintaining consistency, and scaling hiring without sacrificing defensibility.

Recruitment & Retention

Hiring Process

Ready, Set, Risk? Understanding Modern Hiring at Scale

From recruiting and retention to company culture and the latest in HR tech, HR Brew delivers up-to-date industry news and tips to help HR pros stay nimble in today’s fast-changing business environment.

HR Brew

Vicky Valet

Mikaela Cohen

Adam DeRose

An illustration of reporter Courtney Vinopal's headshot.

Courtney Vinopal

Kristen Parisi

An illustration of a photo of HR Brew reporter Paige McGlauflin.

Paige McGlauflin

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is under attack. HR professionals weigh in on how the practice has changed.

DEI Strategy

State of the Industry: DEI

Morning Brew Creative Studio

Go1 H2'26 June

HR Strategy

The new rules of buying learning tools and software

Enterprise Learning Strategy

The personalization problem: Why personalized learning is so hard to pull off

Employers have been reluctant to use contingent workers for fear of compliance headaches, but talent shortages are forcing them to reconsider that stance.

Employer Branding

Gig work is taking over the labor market—and creating challenges for HR

Appearing to drop off the face of the earth during the hiring process can create long-term risk for employers.

Candidate Communication

Nearly half of job seekers say they’ve been ghosted by employers

The president called the accounts “consequential,” but whether they prove so for employee benefits depends on a number of factors still in play.

Trump Accounts officially launched. Will employers contribute to them?

“There is an increasingly…loud and organized and well-funded anti-IVF movement, and they’re trying to find creative ways to target access,” Danielle Melfi, CEO of RESOLVE, said.

Fertility Benefits

More state lawmakers seek to mandate IVF insurance coverage, but threats abound

A recent report suggests enrolling in short-term savings can also promote long-term saving for life events such as retirement.

Financial Wellness

Companies like Starbucks and The Fresh Market are all-in on emergency savings

An internal disclosure provision sets Maine’s pay transparency law apart from many others in effect throughout the US.

Pay Transparency Compliance

How to talk to current employees about pay as Maine mandates internal disclosures

Betterment’s roughly 400 in-office employees are allowed to work remotely from July 1 through Labor Day.

Flex Work

Why one fintech company relaxes in-office attendance requirements in the summer

Tricia Crimmins

HR Tech

Some companies are using agents for employee experience, learning, and development—but experts advise against using AI in circumstances requiring empathy.

Generative AI

AI can tackle benefits management. What about interpersonal issues in the workplace?

Its people pros were able to spearhead AI solutions to improve HR processes across the bank.

AI & Digital Fluency

Citi’s HR leaders hosted a hackathon to jumpstart AI adoption inside the people team

A majority of HR leaders said their organizations were more tightly managing base salary growth through strategies such as pay differentiation.

Base Pay

Geopolitical, economic uncertainty is prompting HR leaders to manage pay carefully

Consider this a highlight reel of takeaways.

HR Business Strategy

Four HR lessons from the authors of workplace books

Old books can teach new lessons.

Reasonable Accommodations

What HR should consider about remote work accommodations for disabled employees

The letters may help inform how employers design policies related to hybrid work and commuting.

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Legislative lowdown: Employers don’t have to pay workers for some midday commutes

CEOs claim AI is more cost effective than human workers. The reality isn’t so straightforward.

Hiring Decision-Making

Will employing AI instead of humans really help companies’ bottom lines?

Nearly half of job seekers say they’ve been ghosted by employers

The Latest HR News

Geopolitical, economic uncertainty is prompting HR leaders to manage pay carefully

Four HR lessons from the authors of workplace books

What HR should consider about remote work accommodations for disabled employees

Legislative lowdown: Employers don’t have to pay workers for some midday commutes

Editor's Picks

Trump Accounts officially launched. Will employers contribute to them?

More state lawmakers seek to mandate IVF insurance coverage, but threats abound

Companies like Starbucks and The Fresh Market are all-in on emergency savings

How to talk to current employees about pay as Maine mandates internal disclosures

Events

The Total Rewards Equation: Balancing Cost, Care and Culture

The New I-9 Error Playbook: Classification, Risk, and Response

Ready, Set, Risk? Understanding Modern Hiring at Scale

Resources

State of the Industry: DEI

Will employing AI instead of humans really help companies’ bottom lines?

Gig work is taking over the labor market—and creating challenges for HR

State of the Industry: DEI

People Person with Kate from HR

Topics

Quick-to-read HR news & insights

Nearly half of job seekers say they’ve been ghosted by employers

The Latest HR News

Geopolitical, economic uncertainty is prompting HR leaders to manage pay carefully

Four HR lessons from the authors of workplace books

What HR should consider about remote work accommodations for disabled employees

Legislative lowdown: Employers don’t have to pay workers for some midday commutes

Editor's Picks

Trump Accounts officially launched. Will employers contribute to them?

More state lawmakers seek to mandate IVF insurance coverage, but threats abound

Companies like Starbucks and The Fresh Market are all-in on emergency savings

How to talk to current employees about pay as Maine mandates internal disclosures

Events

The Total Rewards Equation: Balancing Cost, Care and Culture

The New I-9 Error Playbook: Classification, Risk, and Response

Ready, Set, Risk? Understanding Modern Hiring at Scale

Quick-to-read HR news & insights

Resources

State of the Industry: DEI

Will employing AI instead of humans really help companies’ bottom lines?

Gig work is taking over the labor market—and creating challenges for HR

State of the Industry: DEI

People Person with Kate from HR

Topics