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Grief can show up in unexpected ways in the workplace.

Many employees are familiar with grief: 61% of working adults have experienced the death of a loved one while employed, according to a 2025 survey from the New York Life Foundation, and 91% consider coping with death as significant as getting married or having a kid.

And now, some employees are experiencing grief in response to the loss of their identity, career, and ability to provide for one’s self, according to Max Blumberg, a psychologist and change management consultant. It’s an experience known as “AI grief.”

“It’s a sense of loss that we haven’t seen before in the workplace,” Blumberg told HR Brew. “It’s a sense of everything that you’ve been working towards in your career and your career planning potentially being taken off the table and replaced by AI.”

For more on what HR needs to know about AI grief in the workplace, keep reading here.—MC

      

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Emily Parsons

Many organizations are undergoing massive change and transformation. (Thanks, AI!)

But there is one constant: leaders need people skills, according to Matt Andersen, CEO of Westlake Securities, growth strategist, and author of Intentional Growth: A Proven Guide to Higher Performance and Better Outcomes for Your Company.

Andersen spoke with HR Brew about what HR leaders can learn from his book, and why people skills are important for growing a business.

For more from our conversation with Andersen, keep reading here.—MC

      

Sponsored By Oyster

This is the flex you think it is. If your people aren’t flexing their AI skills, they’ve probably got a good reason why. We teamed up with Oyster to take a closer look at their data on why AI fluency remains invisible in the workplace. Read the full article.

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The Big Stay was a period following the Great Resignation, during which employees, amid a labor-market cooldown, were reluctant to switch jobs.

When did the Big Stay originate? The job-hopping frenzy in 2021 and 2022 known as the Great Resignation took a turn when companies slowed down hiring and stopped offering inflated salaries. In 2023, a new era emerged: the Big Stay.

Why did this lead to the Big Stay? Employees, especially in white-collar industries, became reluctant to switch jobs as the labor market cooled, and many companies conducted layoffs.

For more on the Big Stay and its effect on the job market, keep reading here.—MC

Sponsored By Equifax

Change could be coming. Equifax reports that a proposed rule from the OMB could require all federal grant recipients + subrecipients to use E-Verify for everyone working under the award. HR Brew + Equifax are breaking down everything you need to know in a webinar on Nov. 10. Save your spot.

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Francis Scialabba

Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Employees are spending roughly 2.8 hours per week ensuring their work gets noticed. (VICE)

Quote: “I just like being involved in the community, and this is a great way to do it…I’m glad I get to talk to people who are much older than me and get their perspectives about voting over the years and elections, because a lot of [poll workers] have been doing election cycles for years.”—Lucille Hayes, a University of Georgia college student, on their experience as a poll worker for the midterm elections (the Red & Black Newspaper)

Read: Three former federal workers were just elected to Congress. (the Washington Post)

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