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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

Deel

Deel May 2026 Branded Article

HR Tech

Exploring the boundaries of automation, human oversight, and responsible AI use..

Automation

What are the do’s and don’ts of AI in HR? Deel charted out the boundaries 

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

Employers are teaming up directly with providers to cut a better deal on healthcare

Caroline Catherman

Healthcare Brew covers pharmaceutical developments, health startups, the latest tech, and how it impacts hospitals and providers to keep administrators and providers informed.

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Healthcare Brew

Payers

Payer Landscape & Market Dynamics

Frustrated by increasing insurer friction, health systems are cutting out the middlemen.

Employer-Sponsored Insurance

How cutting deals with employers saves health systems money

Benefits

Frustrated by increasing friction between health systems and insurers, some employers are negotiating their own contracts with providers. 

Health Insurance

Cross Post: How cutting deals with employers saves health systems money

This is the first year that more workers are eligible to earn at least $15 an hour than those living in jurisdictions with the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour.

Minimum Wage Laws

Higher minimum wage rates take effect throughout the US as inflation bites into earnings

But uncertainty and business change continues to impact TA strategy, an HR Brew survey finds.

Hiring plans to remain steady in second half of 2026

Employees are likely to have questions about lockup periods, taxation, and their overall finances after a company goes public.

Financial Wellness

What financial benefits should look like after a mega-IPO like SpaceX’s

Minimum wage will go up in two states and Washington, DC, come July 1, while other laws are set to impact pay transparency, paid leave, and non-competes.

Changes to minimum wage, paid leave, and more take effect next month

Employees at Synthesia are recognized for transforming work with AI, rather than for tokenmaxxing.

LLMs

Why this AI-powered video company measures impact rather than token usage

Hundreds of people were fired for posting about Kirk’s killing on social media. Some have successfully brought claims against their ex-employer.

Termination Laws

Settlements top $1m for workers fired over online comments about Charlie Kirk. Should employers worry?

HR Strategy

Since 2020, the social media influencer known as “Corporate Natalie” has worked to create a culture for her three full-time and several part-time employees.

Culture Strategy

How content creator Natalie Marshall built her company’s culture from the ground up

The paused AI training program monitored employees’ keystrokes, mouse clicks, and activity, and even took screenshots of their computers. 

Surveillance

Meta’s employee-tracking AI tool put on hold after exposing sensitive data internally

The plan was released just before Tokyo Pride, and as new data signals the LGBTQIA+ community has grown to more than 10% of the country’s population.

World of HR: Japan to implement LGBTQIA+ education in workplaces, schools

Employers with 100 or more workers will have to include language in job postings specifying if, and when, they intend to fill an advertised position. 

Legislation

Legislative lowdown: New York lawmakers pass bill to crack down on ‘ghost jobs’

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?

Employers are teaming up directly with providers to cut a better deal on healthcare

The Latest HR News

Meta’s employee-tracking AI tool put on hold after exposing sensitive data internally

World of HR: Japan to implement LGBTQIA+ education in workplaces, schools

Higher minimum wage rates take effect throughout the US as inflation bites into earnings

Legislative lowdown: New York lawmakers pass bill to crack down on ‘ghost jobs’

Editor's Picks

Higher minimum wage rates take effect throughout the US as inflation bites into earnings

Hiring plans to remain steady in second half of 2026

What financial benefits should look like after a mega-IPO like SpaceX’s

Changes to minimum wage, paid leave, and more take effect next month

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

Employers are teaming up directly with providers to cut a better deal on healthcare

The Latest HR News

Meta’s employee-tracking AI tool put on hold after exposing sensitive data internally

World of HR: Japan to implement LGBTQIA+ education in workplaces, schools

Higher minimum wage rates take effect throughout the US as inflation bites into earnings

Legislative lowdown: New York lawmakers pass bill to crack down on ‘ghost jobs’

Editor's Picks

Higher minimum wage rates take effect throughout the US as inflation bites into earnings

Hiring plans to remain steady in second half of 2026

What financial benefits should look like after a mega-IPO like SpaceX’s

Changes to minimum wage, paid leave, and more take effect next month

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