Sept. 18, 2025
| This week’s compensation and benefits news and insights for HR leaders
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Open enrollment is upon us and, with it, the culmination of many months of work optimizing employee benefits offerings.
In just a few weeks, though, we’ll be turning our attention toward what’s next. For the second year in a row, HR Dive journalists will speak with benefits and total rewards experts in a live virtual event, where we’ll discuss how employers should strategize to take advantage of the latest benefits trends moving forward.
We hope to see you on Wednesday, Oct. 8. You can register for the event here: The HR Dive 2026 open enrollment and total rewards playbook.
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Employers might need to embrace a “very different” view of health benefits strategy moving forward, one of the firm’s analysts told HR Dive.
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Disney agreed to have an outside labor economist conduct a pay equity analysis of certain positions for the next three years.
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Notably, nearly all survey respondents expressed interest in AI becoming a friend or in AI systems that suggest co-workers based on shared interests.
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Democratic Women’s Caucus members said they were “deeply concerned,” and that “economic indicators suggest that this exodus of women from the labor force is not entirely voluntary.”
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As leaders focus on hiring challenges, they may miss the talent crisis inside their organizations, Workday said.
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