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via Culture Amp
Culture Amp's 2026 AI in HR study found that 86% of HR professionals use AI for content creation, but only 34% have moved to agentic workflows, with belief that AI can 'significantly improve how work gets done' actually decreasing as HR claims more ownership of AI strategy.
SD Worx research found that 46% of UK employees expect AI to share their tasks, but only 28% have received AI-related training from their employer in the past year, and just 30% believe their organisation is helping them build AI-era skills.
via ADP Research
ADP's NER Pulse shows US private employers added an average of 16,500 jobs per week for the four weeks ending July 4, down from 40,750 in early May — the fourth consecutive weekly decline.
via OECD
The OECD Employment Outlook 2026 finds persistent geographic disparities in employment and income across member countries, with regional employment rate gaps exceeding 20 percentage points in over half of OECD nations.
via The HR Director
The UK government launched a consultation on 15 July proposing mandatory salary disclosure on job adverts, echoing the EU Pay Transparency Directive. Research shows 80% of jobseekers avoid roles without salary details.
Indeed Hiring Lab's June 2026 snapshot shows job postings at 101.0 (barely above pre-pandemic baseline), unemployment at 4.2%, vacancy-to-unemployment ratio at 1.0, and posted wage growth of 2.4% trailing CPI inflation of 3.5%.
via Phenom
Phenom announced new results from WorkOps, its orchestration and governance system for coordinating multiple AI agents across hiring, onboarding, development, and retention. Enterprises report 50% faster hiring and 40% increase in internal mobility, but Gartner predicts 40%+ of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by end of 2027.
via Statewatch
The staff committee of the Court of Justice of the EU has written to the Commission demanding explanation of plans to use an AI tool (built on Anthropic's LLM, hosted on AWS) to screen 170,000+ candidates for EU institutional roles — citing compliance concerns under the AI Act the Commission itself authored.
via Personnel Today
The Greater London Authority's AI and Jobs Taskforce reports 46% of London workers (2.4 million) are exposed to generative AI, with 313,000 in the highest-exposure category. Entry-level roles are disproportionately affected, echoing the seniority-biased pattern seen in US data.
via FE News
ONS July 2026 labour market data shows youth unemployment at 16.4%, its highest since 2015, while vacancies dropped to 712,000 and payrolled employees fell 85,000 year-on-year.
via DLA Piper
The Digital Omnibus pushed high-risk AI compliance to December 2027, but the emotion-recognition ban, AI literacy duty, and most transparency obligations still take effect on 2 August 2026.
A Birketts survey of 155 employers found 52.9% provide no probation period training for managers, ahead of unfair dismissal protections taking effect from 1 January 2027.
via MyPerfectCV
A MyPerfectCV survey of 1,500 professionals found 55% of UK employees work outside normal hours every day, compared to 29% across Europe, with 92% struggling to switch off.
Research published in Management Science analysing 11 million Fiverr transactions found that a one-hour delay in candidate response time made them 46% less likely to be hired, with those waiting 24 hours 90% less likely. Speed overrode quality: a 4.25-star rated provider who replied quickly beat a 4.85-star provider who waited. Automated replies erased the advantage entirely.
via ERE
ERE reports that employers paying for Indeed Sponsored Jobs are increasingly unable to find their own listings in search results. Indeed's personalised, payment-tiered algorithm means two people searching the same terms see different results. Startups Role and Dreamwork are attempting to challenge with cleaner search and resume-based matching, though neither is close to scale.
via HR Brew
Nicol Turner Lee of the Brookings Institution told an NYU Law audience that AI bias in hiring stems not just from tools but from who develops them and whose data they're trained on. She specifically flagged deep learning models in video interview assessment that penalise Black and Latina candidates through emotional cognition analysis. 'Digital invisibility' extends beyond broadband access to those excluded from AI development.
via Jobtrain
Jobtrain's Q1 2026 Talent Insights Report, analysing 20,000 UK vacancies and 12,500 candidate responses, finds replacement hiring accounts for 78% of all recruitment activity. Mobile applications hit 68% (80%+ in frontline sectors). Salary overtook flexible working as the top offer-decision factor for the first time in four years. 27% of candidates spend over an hour on a single application.
via ERE
Rippling's head of talent Julia Aybin shares the company's framework for evaluating VP-level candidates: same case-study assessment as ICs, live panels, anti-sell before offer. Only 20% of candidates make it to references. The approach rejects the 'pedigree trap' in favour of testing whether executives can still do hands-on work. Five references required, with a specific stack-ranking question.
via Pinsent Masons
The EU AI Act's high-risk AI obligations — covering recruitment, screening, and employment decisions — have been formally delayed from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027. But transparency and prohibition duties remain in force, and the Act's extraterritorial reach means non-EU employers screening EU candidates are still in scope.
via BBC News
The UK government has launched a consultation requiring employers to publish pay and conditions in job adverts or provide them before interview. The proposal is narrower than the EU Pay Transparency Directive but signals the same direction for British employers.
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