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A judge's gavel rendered as a glowing blue and magenta digital wireframe, mid-strike against its sound block on a dark grid floor, symbolising an algorithm facing judgment in court.
Paper Cut

Hiring Algorithms Are Having Their Day in Court

A Workday bias case, an engineer's burnout account, a fifty-year labour participation low, and Revolut's office mandate. Four claims about AI-era work, tested against the evidence this week.

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By EBN Jul 5, 2026 11 min read
A crowded city street at golden hour, with people moving through a dense, backlit flow, illustrating scale, complexity, and the human systems behind enterprise hiring.
Perspective

Korn Ferry Just Bought AMS for $1.1bn. It Didn't Buy an AI Company. That's the Story.

Korn Ferry’s acquisition of AMS is not a side note in the AI era. It says a lot about where enterprise talent buyers still think the value sits: scale, delivery, contracts, and workflow control.

By Mike Parsons Jul 3, 2026 7 min read
Silhouette dwarfed by a wall of scrolling data, evoking candidates optimising themselves for algorithmic hiring systems
Perspective

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Laszlo Bock’s Viral Hiring Playbook

Laszlo Bock’s viral hiring guide is smart, useful, and deeply depressing. It honestly exposes how broken recruiting has become, then teaches workers to survive it through optimization, performance, and strategic likability rather than merit alone.

By Mike Parsons Jul 2, 2026 7 min read
Glass office building exterior on a hot summer day, sun reflected off the facade, no people visible.
Paper Cut

Work's Uncomfortable Summer: The Promises Are Cracking

Two weeks of signals: AI displacing senior talent, RTO credibility cracking, employee surveillance expanding without legal cover, and California tracking AI's labour market effects for the first time.

This article is for Members only

By EBN Jun 28, 2026 11 min read
Mind the gap warning on London Underground platform, illustrating the 2026 AI integration gap between leaders and employees.
Future of Work

The AI Integration Gap: Why 87% of Leaders Want Human-AI Collaboration and Only 12% Have Built It

Three years into the AI boom, four separate research efforts converge on one finding: executive enthusiasm is near-universal, operational integration is rare, and the bottleneck is organisational design.

By James Robbins Jun 25, 2026 6 min read
Multiple colour overlays of the same person holding a phone, creating a layered effect
Employer Value Proposition (EVP)

Does your EVP need to be “always-on”, or just better managed?

Some insist the EVP must evolve in real time. Others argue the core should stay stable, with messaging and proof points adapting. Here’s where the evidence points.

By James Robbins Jun 23, 2026 12 min read
Senior engineer burnout in AI-forward organisations, illustrated by a kayaker paddling hard against fast-moving whitewater rapids.
Future of Work

"Paddling harder to stay ahead of the current": what one principal engineer's account of three years inside AI reveals about senior talent

A principal engineer's calm, specific account of three years inside an AI-forward organisation maps onto a growing body of research showing AI is intensifying senior roles, squeezing mentoring time, and absorbing productivity gains into expanded scope.

By James Robbins Jun 18, 2026 16 min read
Mind the gap warning on London Underground platform, illustrating the 2026 AI integration gap between leaders and employees.
Future of Work

The AI Integration Gap: Why 87% of Leaders Want Human-AI Collaboration and Only 12% Have Built It

Three years into the AI boom, four separate research efforts converge on one finding: executive enthusiasm is near-universal, operational integration is rare, and the bottleneck is organisational design.

By James Robbins Jun 25, 2026 6 min read
A professional seated on a stool holds a plain white sign reading "HIRING", representing the gap between recruitment signalling and the deeper strategic discipline of employer branding.
Guides & Playbooks

What is Employer Branding? A Plain-Language Definition

Employer branding defined in plain language: what it is, where it came from, how it differs from recruitment marketing, and what two new initiatives are doing to give the field the professional infrastructure it deserves.

By James Robbins Jun 24, 2026 9 min read
Multiple colour overlays of the same person holding a phone, creating a layered effect
Employer Value Proposition (EVP)

Does your EVP need to be “always-on”, or just better managed?

Some insist the EVP must evolve in real time. Others argue the core should stay stable, with messaging and proof points adapting. Here’s where the evidence points.

By James Robbins Jun 23, 2026 12 min read
A large stone balanced on an egg, representing the tension between employer brand promise and the internal truth required to support it.
Guides & Playbooks

What is an EVP? How to Define and Test Your Employer Value Proposition

An EVP is not a tagline, a benefits list, or a campaign. It is a research-based communication strategy that resolves a single tension: compelling enough to attract, honest enough to keep. Here is how to build and test one.

By James Robbins Jun 19, 2026 9 min read
Senior engineer burnout in AI-forward organisations, illustrated by a kayaker paddling hard against fast-moving whitewater rapids.
Future of Work

"Paddling harder to stay ahead of the current": what one principal engineer's account of three years inside AI reveals about senior talent

A principal engineer's calm, specific account of three years inside an AI-forward organisation maps onto a growing body of research showing AI is intensifying senior roles, squeezing mentoring time, and absorbing productivity gains into expanded scope.

By James Robbins Jun 18, 2026 16 min read

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