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Off-Duty Conduct

An employer recently terminated an employee after he allegedly sent a racist social media message to WNBA player Chelsea Gray. After Gray posted a screenshot, the employer confirmed the individual

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AI-Assisted Layoff Decisions

Twenty-six Meta employees have sued the company, alleging that AI-assisted or algorithmically informed layoff methods disproportionately affected workers who took medical, parental, family, pregnancy-related, or disability-related leave. According to news

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Hiring Entry-Level Employees? Get Real.

Traditional entry-level hiring benchmarks have lost their reliability—in the case of GPAs, due to “[r]ampant grade inflation” that has “rendered GPAs almost meaningless.” Similarly, AI has muddied the analysis of

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Send in the Clones

A recent piece in The Atlantic (“The Job Market Is Hell”) leads with a strong, dystopian observation: “Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI

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Rest and Relaxation

A recent Newsweek report based on an Amerisleep Survey indicates 37% of surveyed employees used paid time off (PTO) to rest or catch up on sleep (vs. travel or taking

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I, Robot

We face the possibility that AI tools may develop into full, independent employees. While it seems such a reality is unlikely in the immediate future, it raises big and interesting

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AI and the Workplace

AI is truly the shiny object that everyone seems to be chasing. Creative professionals are (probably rightfully) worried that AI will take their jobs (Copywriter Annabel Beales: “Just put it

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Show Me the Money

Salary range information (pay transparency) in Indeed job postings rose in recent years (due, in part, to the post-pandemic job economy and an increasing number of jurisdictions requiring such disclosures).

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