Human Resource Knuggets
Apr 17, 2026
- Email 1: Put your people data to works
- ChartHop offers an AI-powered people operations platform uniting workforce, organizational, and business data.
- Enables leaders to quickly answer staffing questions and align Finance and People teams with a single headcount plan.
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Targets reaching over 124,000 HR executives with advertising opportunities.
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Email 2: Global Messaging | AI Resistance | ‘Jeopardy!’ Lessons
- Discusses employees resisting AI initiatives and strategies to address such sabotage.
- How leadership should communicate rising prices and product delays due to Middle East conflict.
- Raises concerns about AI simplifying study but possibly hindering real learning.
- Advice on managing awkward work situations and insights on leadership presence.
- Highlights hiring mismatches caused by skill shortages.
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Sponsored by Korn Ferry with links to content and podcast.
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Email 3: April 16 – EBSA to focus on ‘bad actors’; Pre-retirement firing didn’t violate ERISA
- U.S. Department of Labor’s EBSA targeting major misconduct and harm.
- Ohio court ruling that pre-retirement firing was lawful.
- Court denied rehearing in a Title VII secular preferences COVID vaccine exemption case.
- Payscale CFO advocates for ongoing compensation discussions driven by Gen Z.
- Provides various HR resources on pet healthcare benefits, mental health promotion, AI impacts on workplace culture.
- Features industry news like H-1B lottery changes and leadership impact on supervisor exhaustion.
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Upcoming webinar on maximizing onboarding engagement.
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Email 4: April 16 – ‘Death by a thousand pings’; Payscale CFO calls for ‘always on’ comp talks
- Reports on employees overwhelmed by inefficient communication systems.
- Lawsuit alleges Deloitte Consulting penalized pregnancy-related leave takers.
- IRS clarifies tax deductions for certain professions on tipped wages.
- Emphasizes need for transparent, frequent pay talks, especially with Gen Z influence.
- Highlights how AI stresses hiring processes, causing loss of trust.
- Features leadership development trends and mentoring’s role in retention.
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Upcoming webinar on maximizing employee engagement before Day 1.
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Email 5: There’s a mental health crisis happening
- Detailed special edition deep dive on pervasive workplace mental health issues.
- Employees suffer silent burnout – physically present but mentally checked out (~40%).
- Burnout costs U.S. employers ~$150 billion annually due to presenteeism.
- Mental health leaves are rising significantly (61% HR leaders report increase).
- Disconnect between employees’ awareness and use of mental health benefits (only 41% of non-managers used benefits vs 87% managers).
- Urges auditing benefit awareness, benchmarking mental health strategies, treating leave trends as strategic issues, and measuring ROI.
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Spring Health webinar announced for May 14, 2026, offering actionable ways to support employees and control costs.
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Email 6: Build a Team That Owns Their Results
- Interactive 60-minute session for managers and HR pros on building accountability culture without blame or fear.
- Framework includes setting clear expectations, confident performance conversations, and cultivating ownership.
- Tools focus on avoiding micromanagement, keeping morale, and embedding accountability long term.
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Recording provided for registrants unable to attend live.
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Email 7: How HR Is Tackling the Engagement Crisis in 2026
- Gallup data shows employee engagement at multi-year low, costing global economy $10 trillion.
- HR leaders addressing communication gaps, underused skills, and quiet disengagement.
- Emphasis on manager enablement and clarity to improve engagement.
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Trendline report available offering insights and tactics to reverse declines.
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Email 8: April 16 – Are rising costs hitting voluntary benefits?; IRS clarifies ‘no tax on tips’
- Voluntary benefits increasingly important to fill gaps amid rising healthcare costs.
- Research indicates workers delay care due to cost, which may impact employers long term.
- IRS offers clarity on professions eligible for tipped wage tax deductions.
- BNY bank provides $6,500 homeownership assistance to employees earning under $100K.
- Covers latest news on ERISA termination cases and Deloitte pregnancy-related leave lawsuit.
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Various resources on total rewards, women’s and family health benefits, and employee benefit strategies.
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Email 9: The people shaping TA are coming to Atlanta
- Announcement for Recruiting Innovation Summit (May 5-6) with focus on real conversations post-session.
- Features talent acquisition leaders from Salesforce, Meta, Marriott, Ford, and more.
- Sessions target mindset shifts, quality of hire, sourcing challenges.
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Options to attend in-person or online with full agenda and ticket info.
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Email 10: Fixing one of HR’s most critical compliance systems
- Whitepaper explores current structural issues with medical certification processes in workplaces.
- Discusses how outdated certification impacts leave, benefits, legal risk, and trust.
- Call to download the whitepaper offering insight and solutions.
- Promotion targets a broad HR executive audience.
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Email 11: What if a leader is the cause of cultural toxicity?
- Features HR leader D’Neale Prosser addressing how to handle toxic leadership and co-design engagement with multigenerational teams.
- Podcast episode on governance risks from AI.
- Legal guidance on limits of serious misconduct dismissals.
- Expert advice on differentiating challenges from burnout.
- Promotes AHRI education offerings and state conferences.
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Email 12: Accountability Without Blame: How to Lead a Team That Owns Their Results
- Workshop opportunity presenting methods to cultivate ownership and performance accountability without fear or blame.
- Also offers a session on lean document retention for solo/small HR teams ensuring legal compliance.
- Workshops provide HR recertification credits.
- Presented by HRMorning as part of Premium Workshops series focusing on practical solutions.
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Email 13: Microsoft Excel: Intermediate Training for Today’s Professionals
- Training sessions designed for finance and accounting professionals to improve Excel skills.
- Additional focus on Excel for payroll professionals to boost accuracy and efficiency.
- Sessions led by subject matter experts and provide Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.
- Registered with NASBA as CPE sponsor.
Stay Well!
