The 2025 midyear HR checkup: Layoffs, DEI pivots and a ‘tricky’ AI future

A large-scale divestment from people initiatives has left HR teams in an uncomfortable spot, one expert told HR Dive.

AI is having ‘a significant and disproportionate’ effect on young workers’ job prospects, study finds

Employment declines “are concentrated in occupations where AI is more likely to automate, rather than augment, human labor,” Stanford researchers said.

Collection, not public disclosure, may doom Illinois demographic data law

Anti-DEI collective American Alliance for Equal Rights alleged that SB2930 violates the First and 14th Amendments.

State targets ‘discriminatory’ DEI practices, cancels minority business conference

City of Columbus could make changes to DEI policies

GMU president refuses to apologize for diversity efforts, lawyer calls Ed. Dept. claims ‘absurd’