Amid the misinformation and litigation surrounding some diversity programs, HR and DE&I professionals have a new tool to track lawsuits and their outcomes.

Earlier this month, the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at the NYU School of Law launched the Advancing DE&I Initiative. The project features an online tracker of DE&I litigation likely to impact the workplace.

The tracker currently details roughly 100 cases, some of which date back to before the Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in June 2023. Many of the lawsuits target programs that aim to help specific marginalized groups, particularly Black and LGBTQ+ workers.

“The tracker is for anyone who supports and wants to advance DE&I,” Christina Joseph, the project director of the Advancing DE&I Initiative, told HR Brew. “We’ve tried to design the tracker to be in plain language, give safe, but sufficient information about the cases, because we want it to be accessible to HR leaders [and] DE&I practitioners.”

Keep reading here.—KP

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Marissa Morrison jokes she’s experienced HR from every angle. The VP of people at ZipRecruiter told HR Brew she got her start in the function as a management consultant for Big Four consulting firm PwC; she’s also served Big Tech at LinkedIn and has led HR at startups at various stages, sizes, and levels of funding.

For Morrison, the HR-adjacent, midsize public company with its mission to connect people to their next great opportunity was a perfect Goldilocks situation: just right.

“I have worked in a variety of different kinds of companies,” she said of her fit at ZipRecruiter. “Getting to step into a leadership role at a people tech company, I think it raises the bar for the people team.”

Morrison said the ZipRecruiter product inspires her and her team to “be leaders on pushing the limits and trying new things when it comes to recruiting,” but it also gives her team a “strategic advantage” when it comes to succeeding in the business.

Keep reading here.—AD

Is generative AI a boon or anathema to human creativity?

That seems to be on the minds of many business leaders as the technology seeps into writing and visual tools that offices tap every day.

A study earlier this month found that AI could boost individual writing creativity, but led to less originality overall. But companies are largely still finding AI plenty useful to juice creativity. At least according to a new report from Canva and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, which surveyed 500+ business leaders, 42% of whom said “GenAI can enhance creativity at their organization to a great extent.”

Some of this power comes not from the creativity of the AI itself but its time-saving potential. More than six in 10 respondents said automating repetitive tasks with AI lets employees focus on “more creative endeavors.”

Keep reading on Tech Brew.—PK

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