As healthcare costs rise, employers are exploring new ways to lower costs and improve outcomes while still bolstering benefits for women and family planning.
But every downturn is eventually met with an upturn.
Employers may need to formulate contingency plans for providing IVF treatments amid efforts by conservatives that would severely limit the procedure.
Their goals include keeping up with AI, connecting more with employees, and spending more time with industry peers.
Many top challenges from 2024 are expected to follow the HR function into 2025.
The largest private employer in the US said it would re-evaluate its participation in Pride parades and will not renew its racial equity center.
“It certainly has been a pretty significant increase…in a pretty short period of time,” Carmen Amara, Yelp’s chief people officer, says.
“With new attitudes and fresher culture coming in with the younger generation, it’s changing things.”
Bosch will cut hours for 10,000 workers and will eliminate 5,500 jobs as the German economy struggles.
The labor market cooldown may continue into the next year, a recent HR Brew survey suggests.
Emily Dickens, head of government affairs for SHRM says that HR leaders, “need to breathe.”
Roughly 40% of Muslims said they’ve been discriminated against when looking for work, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights found.
High costs and the Affordable Care Act have pushed more small employers to stop offering healthcare.
Gen Z management style will reflect changing employee expectations, Daniel Zhao, lead economist at Glassdoor, tells HR Brew.
Paramount began offering eldercare benefits 15 years ago and keeps expanding them as other companies are only starting to realize their importance.
There will likely be a “robust jobs market” in Q3 2025, Rajesh Namboothiry, SVP at Manpower US, tells HR Brew.