The US’s birth rate problem isn’t going away anytime soon. Recently released birth data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms that the US once again saw a decline in fertility last year. The US recorded 3,606,400 live births in 2025, 1% fewer than the year prior. The general fertility rate, at 53.1 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44, fell 1% year over year as well. The fertility rate in the US has declined for nearly two decades now, after peaking in 2007 with 69.5 births per 1,000 girls and women in that 15 to 44 age range. As more baby boomers reach retirement age, the decline in fertility means there are fewer workers entering the workforce to replace them, which will worsen labor shortages in the future. It’s a challenge impacting many other countries, including those in East Asia and Europe. For more on why the falling birth rate matters for HR, keep reading here.—PM | | |
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Trivia lovers and aficionados, this one’s for you. Especially if you’re an HR pro. While compliance can be viewed as a dense, critical (and slightly boring) topic to keep up with, it’s still extremely important. That’s why the EasyLlama team is sharing important compliance info with HR leaders via a method pretty much everyone can get into: trivia. Compliance Challenge: EasyLlama Trivia! takes place on May 13 at 2pm ET. Attendees will walk away with critical compliance knowledge, prizes for correct answers, and a sneak peek of Assisted Reporting, a tool for the future of compliance. Save your virtual seat—and make compliance fun for a change. | |
As employers seek to hire and retain top talent to deliver on their AI strategy, continuously recognizing their achievements will likely become vital. That’s part of the thinking behind a deeper partnership between Achievers, a Canadian recognition and rewards platform, and Workday, which has been an Achievers customer since 2023. Workday announced on April 16 that it selected Achievers to power its recognition product. Ben Carter, Workday’s SVP of total rewards, said implementing a recognition program had helped boost engagement among the company’s workforce, and that he believed this offering could be a differentiator from traditional total rewards programs. For more on Workday’s bet on recognition retaining employees, keep reading here.—CV | | |
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Find your people, pronto. Every step of the hiring process can create a bottleneck. On the flip side, automation can move candidates through the pipeline, keep recruiters on track, and empower HR to reduce time-to-hire by eliminating manual work. Paycor explores the realities of automation here. | |
Today’s top HR reads. Stat: 83,387. That’s the number of job cuts in April, a 38% increase from 60,620 in March, but a 21% decrease from 105,441 in April 2025. (Challenger, Gray & Christmas) Quote: “The people that flip over rooms, clean the hospital, work in food service, construction and skilled trades are another one, logistics, warehousing, transportation, and then, of course, what we see is hospitality and service. In a lot of ways, that’s the backbone.”—Andy Hardy, VP of government relations and external affairs for the Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Ohio, on the immigrant workers who are critical to staffing in the state (WOSU Public Media) Read: There’s a literal push-and-pull dynamic between workers and employers at Walmart. (Business Insider) Ding, ding, ding: EasyLlama’s sharing important compliance info with HR leaders—not via a dense email. Via trivia. It all takes place on May 13 at 2pm ET. Get prizes, product sneak peeks, and pivotal info, all at once.* *A message from our sponsor. |
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