RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

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Job-seekers are “mad as hell and they’re not going to take this anymore.”

Half of job seekers report being ghosted by prospective employers, and the frustration has given rise to a new website, Did they ghost you?, where job applicants call out employers who became unresponsive during the hiring process.

Gary Meyer, a fractional marketing executive based in Toronto, created the website in mid-July, (in what he said was partly a joke) after hearing repeated stories of prospective employers ghosting his friends. For the website’s purposes, Meyer defines ghosting as a company that stops responding after interviewing a candidate and does not ever clearly reject or update the candidate (unanswered applications don’t count).

Meyer’s site blew up quickly: More than 2,000 companies have appeared on Did they ghost you? so far, including tech titans Apple and Microsoft, finance firms Capital One and JPMorgan, and legacy media businesses Condé Nast and CNN.

For more on what HR needs to know about the website, keep reading here.—PM

      

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COMPLIANCE

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Andrea Lucas, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), held a public hearing in Washington, DC, on August 11 about the future of EEO reporting, and the commission’s plan to discontinue the data collection.

More than 20 speakers addressed the commission, and many of them expressed concern about ending demographic data collection, with some questioning Lucas’s rationale for ending the reports.

Catch up. The EEOC issued a proposal to rescind the data collection in May, after 60 years of EEO-1 reporting, HR Brew reported previously. Lucas has claimed, without evidence, that EEO reporting is cumbersome for employers, and could encourage employers to engage in “discriminatory” practices in an effort to diversify their workforce, the Associated Press reported.

Advocates respond. Experts both in favor of and opposed to the rescission spoke about the EEOC’s upcoming changes. The majority of speakers opposed the EEOC’s plan to end EEO data reporting, and several equality advocates noted that the Commission has not produced evidence to support Lucas’s assertion that data has been used to advance “illegal DEI” or pursue quotas.

For more on the response to the proposal, and how the changes might affect HR, keep reading here.—KP

      

TECH

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The roster of AI scribes and AI receptionists now includes another robo coworker: AI scheduling systems.

Tech companies are developing and deploying systems they say give clinicians and administrative workers more information about how to staff hospitals and connect patients to appointments.

Instead of merely answering calls, as automated receptionists do, AI scheduling systems help manage hospital operations by analyzing various data sources. These include patient appointments and no-shows, how long certain workers have been on shifts, how their expertise matches up with patient needs, and what beds and surgical units are open. The software then uses these inputs to put together a staffing schedule.

Such services are part of a bigger push to bring more AI into hospital operations to improve efficiency, experts told us.

For more on how AI scheduling systems are helping hospitals manage staffing, keep reading on Healthcare Brew.—CM

      

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Today’s top HR reads.

Stat: Inflation peskily increased to 3.4% last month, a year over year increase that outpaces the hourly wage increase seen in the same period, according to federal agency reports. (the New York Times)

Quote: “I think obviously the relationship between a manager and an employee is quite delicate, especially depending on the employee’s position. But what we’ve seen in this experiment is not that the AI would be more ruthless or be worse for the employee in that decision.”—Lukas Petersson, co-founder of Andon Labs, on the AI firing of a truant employee at America’s first store run by an AI manager (Business Insider)

Read: AI as the culprit of a rough job market for early career professionals? Not so fast. It may not be the whole story, according to economists. (NPR)

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