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Some people switch off the news to protect their peace. Others keep refreshing their feeds, hoping the next update will help them make sense of things. These people work alongside each other. Sometimes, we move between both habits ourselves. Pew Research Center's 2026 report found that 52% of U.S. adults felt worn out by the amount of news. 60% said they had reduced their news intake at some point. A quieter colleague may be trying to get through the day. Someone who keeps bringing up the headlines may be looking for reassurance. We cannot know without listening. For leaders, that means making room for different responses while paying attention to what people need at work. 🔸 Can they ask for support privately? 🔸 Do they know what matters this week? 🔸 Will saying they are struggling lead to something helpful? Here are five ways to make work more manageable when the world feels unpredictable. 👉  What would help your team now? #HR #HumanResources #Managers #Leadership #psychologicalsafety #workplaceculture
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$660 MILLION. That's how much the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recovered for victims of employment discrimination in fiscal year 2025. The agency also received 88,201 new discrimination charges. And those figures capture only part of the cost. Workplace problems can also damage trust, weaken teamwork, silence employee voices, and affect performance and employer brand. So, how can HR identify warning signs before problems escalate? Last week, @Emtrain released its 2027 Workplace Culture Report. It draws on responses from up to 695,107 employees across more than 385 organizations, and reveals concerning patterns around workplace conflict, speaking up, fairness, and leadership accountability. Today, we examine what these findings mean for organizational risk and share three practical ways HR leaders can spot emerging concerns. 👉 Check out our latest post: bit.ly/4z8xj8E #workplaceculture #organizationalculture #HRLeadership #Leadership #workplaceinvestigations #employeeclaims #casemanagement #management #employeeexperience #workplacediscrimination #Workplaceharrasment
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🎉 Only 7 days until iSpring AI Days 2026! This free virtual conference on October 28 will gather L&D specialists and consultants, instructional designers and curriculum developers, HR and talent development professionals, eLearning developers, educators and eLearning enthusiasts, and business leaders to explore the next step in AI adoption: moving from individual AI tools to AI orchestration. The question at the center of the event is: How do we use these capabilities without compromising quality, losing human judgment, or creating more content simply because we can? ✨ The agenda is amazing! It brings together practitioners exploring AI adoption, course creation, human judgment, learning quality, and more! If you can't attend live, register anyway. iSpring will send registered participants the full session recordings after the event. 📅 October 28 💻 Free and online 👉 Register for free: bit.ly/4hUAuKS #LearningAndDevelopment #AIOrchestration #FutureOfLD #AIinHR
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HR leaders know what is changing. The data is everywhere. What gets less attention is the capability question underneath each force. Knowing 82% of boards plan workforce reductions means nothing if your employee relations function only activates when something goes wrong. 🔍 Five forces. Five domains. Five actions worth taking this week. Each slide in this carousel is grounded in the GCF research built by 100+ experts across 18 countries. Not trends to monitor. Capability gaps to close. 💡 The framework tells you which ones to prioritize for your industry, size, region, and maturity level. Which of the five is your function least prepared for right now? Explore the HR GCF at globalcapabilityframework.ha… #HR #HRStrategy #HRLeadership #FutureOfWork #HackingHR
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A workforce plan approved in January is often obsolete by the end of Q1. Today, we dig into why workforce planning is becoming a living capability. When AI shifts the work, priorities change, or skills get scarce, how can our organization adapt in real-time and pivot with the business? Very timely, Cornerstone has just launched Cornerstone Workforce Planning, an AI-native, agentic solution within Cornerstone Workforce AI™ built to help organizations plan for a world that won't sit still. 👉 Check out our latest post: bit.ly/4yAJH02 #workforceplanning #workforcereadiness @CornerstoneInc
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📌 “Do you know anyone who’d be a good fit for this role?” Hiring managers ask this question every day. And sometimes, the answer leads to an excellent hire. But what happens when referrals become the preferred way to fill positions because the regular hiring process takes too long, screens out qualified people, or consistently fails to deliver? The same candidates keep circulating through familiar networks. People without the right connections struggle to get noticed. And the underlying recruitment problems remain untouched. Employee referrals can be incredibly valuable. They can also make it easier for organizations to ignore the parts of their hiring process that desperately need attention. 🔎 Here’s something worth examining: Are referred candidates succeeding because they’re better suited for the job, or because they’re receiving a level of consideration other applicants never get? 💬 HR and talent acquisition professionals: Have you noticed differences in how referred candidates and external applicants are evaluated in your organization? 🔁 Repost to bring more perspectives into this conversation. #HackingHR #TalentAcquisition #Recruitment #HiringPractices #HRLeadership
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📄 A job description asks for five years of experience, proficiency in eight different tools, a specific degree, and a career path that looks remarkably similar to the person who held the position before. Somewhere, a candidate who could do the job exceptionally well reads that list and closes the tab. And the hiring team never knows they existed. We’ve become very good at describing the people we think we need. But how good are we at recognizing someone who could surprise us? Consider a candidate who has never held the exact title you’re hiring for but has already solved the problems your team is struggling with. Would your hiring process recognize their experience? Would they even make it past the initial screening? 🎯 Job descriptions serve a purpose. The question is whether we’ve become so attached to our requirements that we’ve stopped questioning which ones actually matter. 💬 Hiring managers and recruiters: What’s one requirement you’ve removed from a job description that helped you discover better candidates? 🔁 Share this with someone who’s rethinking how their organization hires. #HackingHR #TalentAcquisition #Recruitment #Hiring #HRLeadership
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🧡 You know that colleague who always stays late to help someone finish a project? Or the one who quietly takes on extra work when the team is overwhelmed? When was the last time someone acknowledged what they did? We spend so much time discussing workplace culture, yet some of the things that shape our daily experience at work happen in conversations, meetings, and ordinary interactions that nobody thinks twice about. Giving someone credit when they’re not in the room. Respecting a colleague’s time off. Noticing when someone has gone unusually quiet. Making space for the person who keeps getting interrupted. None of these require a leadership title, a budget, or anyone’s permission. 💬 What’s one small gesture from a colleague that you’ve never forgotten? 🔁 Share this with someone who makes your workday a little better. #HackingHR #WorkplaceCulture #KindnessAtWork #EmployeeExperience #Leadership
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Where Should HR Invest in AI? Practical Frameworks from Our Chicago Workshop, in partnership with @kinfolkhq and Marsh Agency. linkedin.com/pulse/where-sho…
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AI can make the work easier. But does easier mean better? In 2025, researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University found that greater confidence in GenAI was associated with less critical thinking. In L&D, teams now use AI to assist with tasks that used to be time-consuming, like generating ideas, structuring content, and drafting course materials and assessments. While AI does some of the heavy lifting that once kept us busy, it creates more opportunities to apply our knowledge and critical thinking. We can invest more of our expertise in designing human-centered learning experiences and improving the learning journey based on evidence. This simple framework captures where human expertise matters across the learning workflow. 🌟 The shift from AI tools to orchestration will be the theme of iSpring AI Days 2026, a free virtual conference on October 28. The event will gather L&D specialists and consultants, instructional designers and curriculum developers, HR and talent development professionals, eLearning developers, educators and eLearning enthusiasts, and business owners. What you'll learn: - Why culture determines whether AI adoption actually succeeds - How to build ethical, secure, and compliant AI practices into your L&D processes - Practical ways to keep pace with changes in AI without burning out your team - How to evaluate AI-generated course content - Why expertise gained through hands-on experience remains essential to using AI well 👉 Register for free: bit.ly/4ebrBKp 💬 What would you add to the framework? #LearningAndDevelopment #AIOrchestration #FutureOfLD #AIinHR #HumanResources #employeetraining #GlobalHR
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How much time are people spending “helping AI” save them time? Glean’s 2026 Work AI Index surveyed 6,000 digital workers across the US, UK, and Australia, and they estimated that they spend 6.4 hours a week “botsitting”: 🔸 → 2.3 hours spent on supplying context 🔸→ 2.2 hours spent supervising its outputs 🔸→ Finally, 1.7 hours spent debugging AI mistakes With better tools and integrations, it is possible to reduce repeated context-setting and avoidable errors. However, checking accuracy, applying judgment, handling exceptions, and taking responsibility for the result remain human work. It can't be delegated to AI. The same study found that employees who improved both quality and productivity spent a greater share of their AI time on these activities. This brings us to a question leaders should focus on: Which parts of this work can we reduce, and which must be planned into the workflow? Next week, we are kicking off Women Leading AI Transformation, a 5-week Micro Certificate Program, led by @MalvikaAtvis . We will examine these questions alongside other decisions organizations are facing: You will walk away with: 🔸 An understanding of whether your organization is ready for AI transformation 🔸 Frameworks to help you redesign workflows, roles, and decision rights for human+AI collaboration 🔸 Ways to measure the capacity AI creates, but also the cognitive load it puts on people 🔸 Strategies to address bias, employee monitoring, workplace surveillance, and responsible governance Starts October 14 📅 Five live classes, Live & Online 🗓️ Wednesdays, 8:00–10:00 AM PT 🎓 Included with Hacking HR Premium and Premium+ After completing the course, you will get a digital diploma, a Pearson badge, and 10 HR Credits (SHRM + HRCI+ IHRIM) 👉 Learn more and enroll: bit.ly/3UhjsNX #AI #HR #FutureOfWork #AITransformation #HRLeadership #WorkRedesign #AIinHR
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Correction: The Micro Certificate Program "Women Leading AI Transformation" starts this Wednesday, October 14!
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🔥 Change never fails; people feel its weight long before leaders notice it. 🧠 Every transformation has that moment when the room goes quiet. Not because everyone agrees, but because no one is sure if it’s safe to name what’s actually happening. These questions aren’t a checklist. They’re a way of paying attention to the tension in the room, the people carrying the most weight, and the signals your culture sends when no one is “on stage.” ✨ Because when the dust settles, people remember how they were treated while everything was shifting. Which question do you think leaders skip the most? Tag someone who leads with awareness, or repost if this resonates. #HackingHR #HRLeadership #ChangeManagement #FutureOfWork #PeopleAndCulture
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Run, run, run! Find your hiding spot! 🏃😂 Happy Friday! #hrmemes #hrlife #HackingHR #HRcommunity #officememes #HRhumor #HRhumour #fridaymemes #humanresources
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Do you really know… 🔸 How much capacity is AI creating in your organization? 🔸 How much time is being released? 🔸 Where is that capacity going? Today, in collaboration with @MalvikaAtvis, we explore why these questions may be harder to answer than they seem. And how to find out. 👉 Check out our post: bit.ly/3Wemdjy #AI #HR #FutureOfWork #AITransformation #HRLeadership #WorkRedesign #AIinHR
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Here's a decision tree that challenges a very recognizable HR reflex: we see a capability problem and immediately jump to training or hiring. But interventions should come later. ➡️ First, we need to understand what is actually getting in the way of the outcome the business needs. - Is the outcome itself clear? - Could capable people succeed in the current environment? - Does the capability already exist somewhere else in the organization? - Does this require only a few people to do it, or does the organization need to develop and sustain it? A capability gap can point to very different decisions. The answer might be to build, redeploy existing talent, hire externally, use contingent talent, automate, or redesign the work. And sometimes the issue isn't capability at all; it's the conditions around the work. This decision tree can help you diagnose a bit more deliberately before deciding where to invest. 💬 What would you add to it? Share with our community!👇 #WorkforceStrategy #CapabilityBuilding #StrategicHR #FutureOfWork #HackingHR #Leadership #HumanResources #skillgaps
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AI can make L&D work easier. But does easier mean better? 👉 Check out our latest post in partnership with @iSpringPro, where we explore why human expertise, judgment, and responsible AI practices matter as we move from AI tools to AI orchestration: bit.ly/4yGBbNK #FutureOfLD #AIOrchestration #LearningAndDevelopment #AIinHR #HRLeadership #FutureofWork
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HR functions build things constantly. Programs, credentials, career paths, competency models. The question rarely asked is whether any of it leaves the business with a capability it can actually feel when it needs one. Without a shared reference for what the output should look like, activity fills the space. What good HR capability looks like at your size, in your industry, at your stage of maturity. Most functions have never had that reference. 🔍 The HR GCF was built to be exactly that. 18 domains. 180 competencies. Three proficiency levels. Each one grounded in observable behavior, not completed hours or job titles. 💡 Five of those domains come with a diagnostic question worth sitting with and one action worth taking Friday before. The questions are the point. Use the framework when the answers make you uncomfortable. Which one exposed something your function has been avoiding? Explore the HR GCF at globalcapabilityframework.ha… #HR #HRStrategy #HRLeadership #FutureOfWork #HackingHR
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You've probably heard the advice "not to layer AI on top of poor workflows". But how do you start redesigning them? Last week, @Kristjanfreyr , CEO of @50skillsHR , guided us step by step in a live workshop. 👉 Here’s what he shared, plus access to the recordings and all the materials we used: bit.ly/4y9m5zc #HRLeadership #AIinHR #HRprocesses #HRworkflows #HROperations #PeopleOps
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