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via LinkedIn
LinkedIn research finds women held just 26% of AI hires in 2025, with the gap widening sharply at leadership level — 13% of C-suite AI roles across 27 countries.
via HR Dive
iCIMS's August Workforce Report found US job openings 17% above baseline while hiring stayed flat — the widest opening-to-hire gap of the year, with manufacturing hit hardest.
via HR Dive
A Gallup survey of 102 CHROs found half lack confidence in their managers' ability to guide AI use at work, echoing a ManpowerGroup finding that only 3% of executives feel 'highly prepared' to direct AI adoption.
via Colorado AG
Colorado's AG filed draft rules implementing the state's ADMT Act, spelling out employer obligations for AI in hiring that go well beyond the statute — including who qualifies to conduct human review and what records to keep. Two competing standards for 'materially influence' will determine whether common recruiting tools fall inside or outside the law.
via FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting argues that organisations can adapt existing privacy rights response processes — intake portals, governance structures, workflows — to handle AI-specific rights under CCPA Article 11, Colorado's ADMT Act, and the EU AI Act, all of which carry January 2027 compliance deadlines for employers using automated decisionmaking in hiring.
via The HR Director
The Federation of International Employers warns that a single AI recruitment platform deployed across multiple countries triggers different legal obligations — AI regulation, data protection, discrimination law, consultation requirements — in each jurisdiction, and that a single 'global policy' is no longer sufficient.
via JD Supra
Foley & Lardner frames AI-powered hiring tools as regulated employment practices carrying litigation risk under federal and state anti-discrimination laws, warning that vendor assurances of 'bias-tested' or 'ADA-compliant' don't relieve employers of independent legal obligations when those tools produce discriminatory outcomes.
via Motley Fool
Reuters reported that private equity firm Silver Lake has spent months in talks to take Workday private. Shares jumped nearly 18%, lifting the HCM giant's market value from roughly $43 billion to $51 billion. No price or terms have been disclosed and no deal is assured.
via Rewordin
A synthesis of 2026 data from SHRM, Gartner, and Sapient Insights finds that 39% of organisations have adopted AI in HR, yet 88% of HR leaders see no significant business value. 56% never set up measurement frameworks. 81% of HR professionals bring their own AI tools to work.
via Staffing Industry Analysts
A Robert Half survey of 500 UK hiring managers finds 34% plan to expand permanent headcounts before the end of 2026, with 47% of technology employers planning to hire. 26% expect greater competition for skilled talent.
via REC
The REC and KPMG UK Report on Jobs (compiled by S&P Global) shows permanent staff placements stabilised in July, ending a 45-month run of decline — the first month without a fall since Liz Truss's 2022 resignation. Temp billings rose for a fourth consecutive month and temp vacancies grew for the first time in two years, while starting-salary inflation hit a six-month high.
via Forbes
Princeton and University of Chicago researchers, presenting at ICML 2026, found that AI models including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini form group-based biases during hiring tasks even when trained on neutral data — more aggressively than humans, and worse in newer, larger models. An explicit diversity objective was the most effective countermeasure.
via Moka AI
Moka AI reported that its Moka Eva recruiting agent cut per-store time-to-hire from 15.4 to 3.8 days at a 20,000-location food and beverage chain, alongside a 60% cut in cost per application and an 80% cut in manual intervention. The figures are vendor-reported, and land the same week KPMG data showed 55% of Asia-Pacific firms have delayed or scaled back AI agent rollouts as costs outstrip value.
via Staffing Industry Analysts
SIA's Global Talent Platform Survey 2026 found gross spend on talent platforms such as Upwork, Fiverr and Toptal fell 2% to $15.3bn in 2025 — only the second time in six years platforms underperformed the staffing industry. AI is eroding demand for simple freelance tasks while creating new demand for AI labour: nearly half of surveyed platforms now offer, pilot or plan AI-related services.
via Staffing Industry Analysts
An Ifo Institute survey of more than 3,000 German firms found roughly half of AI adopters expect AI to depress wages for workers with under five years' experience over the next five years, while degree holders are more likely to see rises. It echoes IESE research on 138 million US workers showing junior wages fell 6.3% after ChatGPT's launch while senior pay held or rose.
via Personnel Today
The Supreme Court ruled part-time status need only be an 'effective cause' of less favourable treatment, not the sole cause, widening the scope for claims against employers.
via Personnel Today
New government documents concede guaranteed-hours reforms could cost UK business £300m–£1.4bn a year, drawing sharp criticism from the REC and RSM.
The new Fair Work Agency published its 2026/27 delivery plan, built around 'deliver, build and innovate', ahead of taking on umbrella-company regulation.
Robert Half finds roughly a third of North American hiring managers who eliminated a role because of AI later rehired for it, and warns the UK could follow as job postings climb.
via Express Employment Professionals
A new Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll survey finds 44% of US hiring managers have unfilled roles while time-to-hire stretches and one in five requisitions closes without a hire.
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