More than 21,000 people in the HR space attended the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Annual Conference and Expo in Las Vegas from all across the globe. Another 3,000 pros joined the conference virtually.

SHRM23 featured notables like former President Bill Clinton, music sensation Janet Jackson, and a bevy of HR professionals and people pros to network with and learn from during the multiday extravaganza celebrating all things work.

Sessions. SHRM23 sessions were too many to count, but pros could follow tracks such as strategic HR, DE&I, or “HR department of one” to curate their experience based on their needs. The conference featured 11 different tracks.

A former president. Clinton headlined the conference’s main stage Monday morning. The 42nd president touched on the Family and Medical Leave Act, which he signed into law in 1993. Washington celebrated the measure’s 30th anniversary earlier this year.

During the session, the former commander-in-chief called for an update to this signature piece of legislation. He suggested lawmakers work on a phase-in component in order to help small businesses adjust to the requirement. Emily Dickens, SHRM’s chief of staff and head of public affairs, told HR Brew the advocacy group is lobbying for paid leave legislation, in addition to updates to immigration and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Delta Airlines Global CEO Ed Bastian was named the Ethical Leader of the Year by the William G. McGowan Charitable Fund in Las Vegas this week at the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Conference and Expo.

Bastian was recognized for his leadership during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite a kneecapped travel industry.

“It was very clear the second we started reviewing his candidacy, that what he was not willing to do was hurt the people of Delta Airlines,” said Brian Peckrill, the McGowan fund’s interim director. “I believe that’s ethical leadership. It’s the values that resonated with him that helped him make that commitment to those people.”

Bastian said ethical leadership is “in your DNA,” and despite employing nearly 100,000 people, the company treats its employees as family.

“I firmly believe that the most important asset of a company is its people, and...for years, airlines have gotten in trouble and they forget that. They think it’s their planes or their geographies or airports. The industry has a lot of sexy objects,” Bastian told HR Brew.

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From parents sitting in on job interviews to spouses applying to jobs on their partner’s behalf, there’s always a new cringe trend emerging in HR. Now, some workers are outsourcing the task of quitting a job.

Where in the world? It’s hard to quit your job in Japan, where many people have historically stayed with a single company their entire career (although that might be changing). Still, some young workers are avoiding the uncomfortable with their employers, Al Jazeera reported. Instead, they’re turning to a service called Exit, a startup that charges about $144 to quit a worker’s job for them. Exit will reach out to employers on behalf of the person to provide notice, which the company’s CEO says allows the worker to be more forthcoming about why they’re leaving. Exit’s clients are mostly young men.

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: The four-week average of jobless claims rose to 246,750; the highest since November 2021. (ABC News)

Quote: “The hope and promise of AI is that it creates the next big ecosystem in which companies that might not be purely AI could benefit off that technology and grow…And with San Francisco being at the center of it, it does present a possible bright spot in terms of new growth in the future.”—Colin Yasukochi, executive director of the Tech Insights Center with CBRE, on how AI may help bring more jobs to San Francisco (the Washington Post)

Read: Architects are turning to AI as they design the workplace of the future. (the New York Times)