Google’s a “top employer” while cutting jobs, LinkedIn’s logic raises eyebrows, and AI’s still gunning for your desk. This week: more layoffs, new challengers to corporate status, and the growing gap between perception and experience. Welcome to the chaos.
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Many mistake an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) for a catchy slogan, but it’s much more than that. A true EVP defines the core of what makes a company a great place to work, guiding employer branding and storytelling. This article explores why EVPs must go beyond taglines to have real impact.
Many workplace diversity efforts focus on optics rather than real change. Genuine inclusion requires more than surface-level commitments - it demands structural shifts, accountability, and actions that truly support equity for all employees.
Massive restructures, secretive layoffs, and AI now coming for… everything. From Mercedes to EY, job cuts are shaking the foundations of industries. Meanwhile, the Big Four are racing into agentic AI, Gen Z continues job-hopping into higher salaries, and RTO pressure mounts again.
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The Employer Value Proposition (EVP) is dead, or at least, the way you’ve been sold it is. Companies spend millions crafting shiny recruitment promises, only for employees to call their bluff. If your EVP doesn’t match reality, it’s not branding, it’s fiction.
AI is being called “intern-level.” Entry-level jobs are evaporating. McKinsey’s bots make decks faster than your grads. And Gen Z? They’re networking like it’s a survival sport. Welcome to the economy where “future-proof” just means “not fired yet.”
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Anduril’s “Don’t Work Here” campaign is bold, witty, and viral - the kind of employer branding most tech companies dream of. But behind the clever copy sits a defence-tech mission that’s a world away from beanbags and burritos. Can a compelling EVP override ethical unease?
Most EB teams are still experimenting with AI while leading employers are already operationalizing it. This piece explores the four phases of AI adoption, exposes why most firms are stuck, and shows what to do now before your competitors pull too far ahead.
AI is eating HR, consulting is collapsing, and Gen Z is logging off. From lawsuits over algorithmic hiring to shrinking bonus pools and remote work reality checks, this week’s Paper Cut dissects the headlines that show where the future of work is failing and what HR must fix.
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