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11/09/2025

11/07/2025

Has SHRM lost its way on inclusion?

SHRM has chosen to appease backlash rather than stand firm in its values, writes RaShawn Hawkins, a member of the organization and senior director of workplace equality at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

11/06/2025

Performance management is not an annual ritual. It's a continuous process to ensure employees know the expectations and how well they are doing. It should be a tool to help improve and not diminish productivity.

Training managers on how to deliver honest feedback and incorporating AI tools could help, according to a report from WTW.

11/05/2025

Inclusion and diversity means all aspects of diversity including when we disagree through listening, understanding, and civility.

The organization’s commitment to inclusion and diversity hasn’t changed, but the world has, writes one SHRM leader.

11/04/2025

Apprenticeships lead to high paying jobs and fill skill gaps.

Through the Employment Training Panel, the cash targets 88 apprenticeship programs and 22,208 workers, many in construction.

11/03/2025

Does the increase with hybrid schedules affect traffic? If so, how much?

Here’s a roundup of numbers from the last week of HR news — including how many businesses plan to increase hiring next year.

10/31/2025

This article is spot on, and I love the opening line, "Discuss the undiscussable. Curiosity over judgment. Practice civility."

Also, as the article states, "....to bring back civility, to walk the talk and truly embrace our diversity, real diversity, not just the diversity we’re comfortable with,”

While moderating a panel between Van Jones and Robby Starbuck, SHRM President Johnny C. Taylor Jr. asked HR pros to embrace “real diversity, not just the diversity we’re comfortable with.”