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Pick your poison: AI speeding up the pace of work, or shrinking the workforce?

Unfortunately, many companies are experiencing both of these transformations…and for employees it’s creating “the two-job job,” a recent Korn Ferry report found. The majority (61%) of workers feel like they’re juggling the workload of two jobs, and nearly half (45%) feel overworked and unable to deliver quality work.

“What’s happened is AI has been just thrown on top of my work, so AI feels like an additional thing I have to accommodate. So, the two-job job is probably an understatement for most people. It’s probably more like a three-job job,” said Roger Philby, Korn Ferry’s UK head of consulting and a global leader of the firm’s people strategy and performance practice.

For more on why employees feel like they’re working a two-job job, and what HR can do to help, keep reading here.—MC

      

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COMPLIANCE

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Officially called Employment Eligibility Verification, the Form I-9 is intended to verify the identity and employment eligibility of those hired to work in the US. All employers and employees must complete the form, which is issued by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, whether or not they are US citizens. Employers that do not complete the form may be subject to penalties.

Created as part of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), which made it illegal for employers to knowingly hire unauthorized workers (including undocumented immigrants), I-9 forms became mandatory for all new employees at the time of their hire starting on November 6, 1986.

Subsequent legislation further shaped the Form I-9, including the Immigration Act of 1990 which prohibits employers from discriminating against a worker by using the form, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) of 1996, which reduced the list of documents that employers could accept to verify a new hire’s work authorization.

For more on Form I-9, including how it works, keep reading here.—PM

COMPLIANCE

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Few jobs are more taxing than medical residency, which often involves completing shifts as long as 28 hours with few days off.

Nearly 30% of residents who responded to an American Medical Association survey reported being burnt out last year, and studies show that lack of adequate rest significantly increases the risk of medical errors. Further, burnout could worsen healthcare workforce shortages, according to a 2023 study that noted there’s a shortage of an estimated 45,000 to 90,000 physicians across all medical specialties.

For decades, residency programs have had rules in place regulating how many hours a resident gets off between shifts and how many shifts in a row they can work. The aim is to make sure they can occasionally get some rest and thereby reduce risks to patient safety. But proposed changes from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the organization that sets standards for residency programs, would roll back some of those protections.

For more on the proposed changes to work-hour protections, keep reading on Healthcare Brew.—MA

      

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Between November 2024 and December 2025, federal employment among Black workers declined by 30% compared to 4% among those of other races. (the Washington Post)

Quote: “In our society, thinness has come to symbolize very strong values…and if people have a higher body weight that doesn’t conform to those ideals, they can be negatively stereotyped as lacking in those characteristics.”—Rebecca Puhl, human development and family sciences professor at the University of Connecticut, on weight bias in the workplace (CNBC Make It)

Read: Sensitive workplace data and information was leaked about Department of Homeland Security employees. (WIRED)

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