Human Resource Knuggets
Feb 12, 2026
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Email 1: “9 Phrases That Kill Collaboration in the Workplace”
– Focus: Identifies nine phrases that harm team collaboration and suggests avoiding them to foster teamwork.
– Additional content:
– Workforce trends impacting 2026.
– HR strategies for scaling business operations and employee retention.
– Guidance on rebooting employee savings programs.
– Handling intermittent FMLA leave efficiently to avoid legal troubles.
– Sponsored session on Feb 12 for HR leaders about scaling HR operations.
Email 2: “Surviving 2026 DOL, EEOC, and ICE Audits”
– Interactive 75-minute instructor-led session invitation for assessing audit readiness.
– Topics include:
– How federal agencies pick employers for audits via payroll and workforce data.
– Documentation pitfalls that increase enforcement risks.
– Aligning payroll, HRIS, and manager records.
– Compliance risks related to wage practices and accommodations.
– Preparing HR and managers for agency contact.
– Goal: Strengthen controls and reduce audit risks.
Email 3: “Feb. 11 – Has EEOC ‘retreated’ on law firm DEI probe? | Workers want heartbreak leaves”
– EEOC stopped pursuing 20 law firms’ DEI information requests after most resisted.
– Survey: Around 33% of workers want companies to offer ‘heartbreak leave’ for breakups, with 43% likely to use it.
– Target cut 500 corporate jobs, reinvesting in store payroll.
– 4th Circuit lifted block on White House DEI executive orders.
– Includes resources and webinars about HR strategies, benefits trends, and workspace improvement.
Email 4: “📓 Turnover is costing you $45,000”
– Report highlights turnover costs now exceed $45K per employee, an increase from last year.
– Drivers include better pay and benefits and higher workplace demands.
– Workers use AI tools to research salaries; 73% prioritize higher pay.
– Advice: Understanding employee needs and controlling variables to retain talent.
– Includes leadership coaching insights on impatience as a stress response linked to childhood.
– Focus on increasing employee focus time and combatting back-to-back meetings.
– Invitation to HR Therapy session on managing costs vs. caring for people.
Email 5: “Feb. 11 – Balance of economy ‘precarious’ | SHRM: Demand for HR workers down amid AI adoption”
– January job report strong but 2025 overall revisions negative.
– Demand for HR workers declining as AI/ML skills become more critical.
– One-third of workers want ‘heartbreak leave.’
– Nearly 70% of workers feel their skills aren’t fully utilized, raising turnover risk.
– Links to reports about HR priorities, benefits, and workforce trends.
Email 6: “Feb. 11 – Nike targeted by EEOC over DEI | EEOC to prioritize ‘reverse’ bias”
– EEOC plans assertive enforcement on ‘reverse discrimination’ cases in 2026.
– EEOC stopped pursuing some law firms’ DEI data requests.
– Nike challenged EEOC subpoena related to DEI activities.
– Harassment guidance removal creates employer uncertainty and risk.
– One-third of employees would prefer to report harassment anonymously.
– HR Dive survey on 2026 HR priorities.
Email 7: “3 ways to unlock managers’ full potentials”
– Most middle managers want to excel in their current role, not just ascend.
– Tips for HR to understand manager motivations and reduce admin burdens.
– Highlights APS’s skills-based career pathways platform.
– Other topics: building accountability culture, HR as a product model, automation risks.
– Promotes AHRI membership benefits.
Email 8: “Managing AI in the workplace for HR pros”
– Trendline report on HR’s role in guiding AI adoption in the workplace.
– Topics:
– Entry-level jobs potentially disappearing due to AI.
– Employees unclear about AI strategies.
– AI freeing workers to focus on role improvements.
– Encouragement for HR to balance AI benefits and risks during eager adoption.
Email 9: “Last call for IAMPHENOM: Master AI for talent acquisitions”
– Invitation to IAMPHENOM conference (March 10-12, Philadelphia), focused entirely on AI and automation in talent acquisition.
– Features 75+ sessions with 100+ HR leaders sharing AI integration best practices.
– Highlighted sessions: AI intake & sourcing, rural healthcare recruiting, targeted hiring with AI, and AI fraud prevention.
– Networking, live demos, SHRM/HRCI credits, and exclusive events included.
– Complimentary ticket offer for ERE subscribers using code IAM-ERE through Feb 13.
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