President Donald Trump’s second term in office has been marked by rapid changes in the political winds and dramatic U-turns as he looks to align federal policy with his political agenda.

During Trump’s first 100 days in office, the new administration has moved swiftly to introduce a wave of new actions and guidances that upend a range of HR- and employment-related policies and protections of the last four years as well as long-standing compliance and enforcement norms.

From DEI to reproductive healthcare, the administration has leveraged the bully pulpit of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. to change the way Americans work and do businesses. To help organizations and their HR teams monitor the regulatory changes and assess what work (if any) is required to remain compliant, and avoid the Eye of Sauron (and an investigation from the EEOC), HR Brew developed an ongoing policy tracker to help HR and their compliance teams stay up to date on the rapidly evolving landscape.

The tracker includes executive orders, guidance memos, regulations, and legislation relevant to HR professionals. While not all of these actions have the force of law, they provide an indication of where the Department of Labor and EEOC will focus their scrutiny under the Trump administration’s direction.

For an in-depth look at the many developments affecting employers, keep reading here.—AD, CV

In the companies of the future, everyone may be a boss…of sorts.

Microsoft and LinkedIn’s annual Work Trends Index envisions a new type of org chart in which each human employee oversees a team of AI agents—AI systems that go beyond chatbots to perform actions. That’s how frontier firms—the report’s term for companies on the leading edge of AI adoption—will operate, with agent bosses (pretty much all human workers) shepherding their task-specific AI underlings.

The report authors derived concepts like these from a survey of 31,000 knowledge workers in 31 countries, trends from LinkedIn labor market and Microsoft software data, and a host of expert interviews.

For more on this future of work report and the need for human supervision, keep reading on Tech Brew.—PK

Long tenures for HR executives are increasingly rare these days. The job has become much more difficult in recent years, and HR leaders have burned out from juggling several challenges at once, prompting them to quit for less stressful opportunities or retire.

But Scott Redfearn seems to have found the secret sauce. Redfearn has served as EVP of global human resources at management consulting firm Protiviti for nearly 18 years. Previously, he spent 20 years at Accenture, a firm known for incubating top HR leaders.

The key to his tenure at both companies has been embracing change as an HR leader, and working for a firm doing the same, he told HR Brew. You were expected to come prepared as an HR leader, have a point of view and speak up, Redfearn said.

For more on Scott Redfearn’s views of HR trends and changes he has observed, keep reading here.—PM