For Elizabeth Norberg, the chief people officer role is about more than just HR.

As EVP and global chief people officer at SharkNinja, a household appliance manufacturer based outside of Boston, Norberg oversees not only people operations, but also corporate communications, real estate, design, and construction.

Norberg took on this broad remit with the support of SharkNinja’s CEO, Mark Barrocas, she told HR Brew at a conference in April.

When Norberg joined SharkNinja in 2023, the company had a “very traditional HR practice,” she said. With Barrocas’s support, Norberg and her team are pursuing a “bigger, bolder agenda,” beyond “the price of admission HR stuff,” she said.

For more on the initiatives Norberg’s team is spearheading, keep reading here.—CV

Anthropic announced last month Claude Tag, a Slack embed that serves as a “teammate” that employees can assign work to, VentureBeat reported.

What’s new? Claude Tag was developed to function as a teammate that can asynchronously chat with a team. It isn’t the first Claude Slack integration, but it is a major upgrade. While its predecessor could only interact with one employee at a time, Claude Tag can work with any number of employees in a channel, building a memory based on the information fed to it so it can pick up incomplete tasks, according to VentureBeat. It will not, however, monitor private channels or messages, Anthropic noted on its website.

Reminder for HR pros. AI agents have been a central workplace conversation topic for more than a year, as companies have expanded their tech stacks and sought to automate more mundane tasks.

Organizations should “develop clear frameworks” to keep them in check, according to VentureBeat. To ensure the successful adoption of AI agents, and other new technology, employers should bring workers into the process, Katya Laviolette, the chief people officer of 1Password recently told HR Brew.

For more on what HR needs to know about Claude Tag, keep reading here.—KP

Change is the only constant in life, and in the C-suite.

Such was the case in the first half of 2026, as some C-suites across corporate America saw heads of HR come and go. Here are just a few of the HR moves to have made headlines.

Comings. Allison Pinkham took “new year, new you” to heart, stepping into the role of EVP and CHRO at Albertsons on Feb. 16. She succeeded Mike Theilmann, who retired in November, and brought with her 25 years of experience, most recently as executive committee member and CHRO at Swiss pharma giant Galderma.

Goings. Following layoffs at Epic Games affecting approximately 1,000 employees, or 20% of the workforce, the company’s chief people officer, Monika Fahlbusch exited on April 15.

For more on the most notable HR moves so far this year, keep reading here.—VV

On this episode of People Person, host and Morning Brew Inc.'s SVP Head of People Operations Kate Noel, speaks with Jenna Young, Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry about the importance of PTO: taking it, not taking advantage of it, and how companies should actually be thinking about it for optimal employee performance. Plus, Jenna shares her idea for trading AI training with Summer Fridays.

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