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Meta’s Layoffs Raise Key Question: What Is the Optimal Number of Direct Reports?
The company recently announced plans to flatten its structure by reducing the number of managers. But how many managers is too many? How many is too few? Read more
Top Stories: ATS Speed Comparisons, Recruiting Foreign Nationals, and More!
A roundup of news and stories from the past week. Read more
“This Will Be Tough”: Meta Targets Recruiters in New Layoffs
Plan to eliminate 10,000 more jobs, many in recruiting, would reduce Meta’s headcount by 25% since last fall. Read more
Top Stories: Airbnb Cutting Recruiter Roles, LinkedIn Turns 20, and More!
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Top Stories: Workday Charged With Bias, the End of Employee Empowerment, and More!
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The Labor Market: Putting Layoffs Into Perspective
All the news about layoffs, especially in tech, can obscure what is in many other ways a strong labor market. Wage growth and inflation offer mixed news, … Read more
Top Stories: The Desire to Remain Jobless, Fake Job Applicants, and More!
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New NLRB Ruling May Abolish Severance Agreements…and Severance
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just upended standard practices when it comes to severance agreements — in effect redefining the very nature … Read more
The Death of the College Degree
Several states have moved to remove the requirements for college degrees from government jobs. Jobs that require licensing, such as nurses and attorneys, … Read more
Top Stories: Texas Imperils Diversity Hiring, Upwork Upends Its Business Model, and More!
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Top Stories: Salary Transparency’s Impact on Pay, the Craze Over ChatGPT, and More!
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The EEOC’s New Areas of Focus Will Upend Recruiting Processes
The EEOCs’ aim to expand protections for workers and candidates — as well as revise the definition of recruiting itself — would force employers to update … Read more
Top Stories: Explaining the Mass Tech Layoffs, New Time-to-Fill Data, and More!
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Top Stories: A Look at Amazon’s Future, Walmart’s Pay Raise, and More!
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Pennsylvania Scraps College Degree Job Requirement
This is another test of the excerpt. Read more
Tech Layoffs Should Make Tech Recruiting Easier. So Why Isn’t It?
It may feel like the current rash of tech layoffs started with Twitter, but they did not. Twitter was just loud about it. Challenger, Gray & Christmas, … Read more
Top Stories: Why We Love/Hate Work Buzzwords, Managing Hiring Slowdowns, and More!
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Is a 2023 Recession Inevitable?
To kick off the year, the first economic and labor-market data released have been mostly positive. And given the pessimistic sentiment that has lingered … Read more
Top Stories: The Deprioritization of Diversity, Crazy Salary Ranges, and More!
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