Employer Branding News (Page 4)

The Sex Recession Is Coming for Your Talent Pipeline

Falling birth rates have an economic story and a cultural one. The cultural one is more interesting... and more troubling.

By Mike Parsons Jul 16, 2026 10 min read

Exit Interview

We Launched An EVP While Our Glassdoor Page Was A Dumpster Fire

You can't out-message hundreds of employees telling the truth in public. We tried and it didn't work.

By Unnamed CHRO Jul 14, 2026 6 min read

Paper Cut

Big Tech just flipped on its own AI jobs story

Microsoft and Xbox name AI displacement directly, the Fed hands its jobs task force to a CEO who just cut thousands, and Volkswagen weighs 100,000 cuts. This week's signals for HR and EB leaders.

By James Robbins Jul 12, 2026 11 min read

Perspective

Now That The AI Bill Has Arrived, Employers Have a Choice to Make

The promise was simple: AI would lower labour costs. The reality looks messier. If the tools cost as much as the people they were meant to replace, employers now face three ugly options.

By Mike Parsons Jul 9, 2026 8 min read

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.

By James Robbins Jul 5, 2026 11 min read

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

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

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.

By James Robbins Jun 28, 2026 11 min read

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

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

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

Talent Attraction

Inside LinkedIn's Job Marketplace: What the "Top Picks" Debate Tells Talent Leaders About Trust

LinkedIn's "Top Job Picks for You" blends algorithmic matching with paid placement. A recent critique argues that mix is misleading. Independent data on application volume, ghosting, and AI in hiring suggests the wider story is bigger than any single platform.

By James Robbins Jun 16, 2026 5 min read