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Immigration More Asian Countries Focus on Job Roles for Local Citizens

Indonesia steps up enforcement on job vacancy transparency laws.

By Michelle Swinden

Australian Government Reviews National Employment Standards

The review focuses on whether the minimum standards remain fit-for-purpose as work changes.

By Michelle Swinden

New Executive Order Further Targets Federal Contractors DEI Practices

President Trump issued a new executive order formally requiring federal contractors to certify that they do not engage in discriminatory DEI practices or risk contract termination and/or debarment.

By Gregory C. Hoff

White House Releases AI Policy Framework: What to Know and Will it Matter?

The White House released  a five-page overview of AI policy recommendations , but continued gridlock in Congress and the upcoming Congressional elections make its actual implementation uncertain at best.

By Gregory C. Hoff

The C Suite Formula for Outsized AI Returns

Many organizations are investing heavily in AI and getting wildly different results. The surprising divider isn’t the model, the platform, or the vendor roadmap, according to a  Deloitte analysis . Outsized AI value shows up when technology investment decisions are intentionally shared among complementary leaders, most notably the CTO, CFO, and CSO.

By Megan Wolf

Strategic Workforce Planning in an AI World from Headcount to Capability Advantage

In traditional workforce planning, leadership sets the strategy and HR delivers on the talent. As many companies are learning, AI is changing this equation because of the uncertainty of future job and functional needs.

By Ani Huang

The Hidden Costs of Unlimited Employee Access to AI Tools

Facing rising costs, more and more companies are beginning to rein in their employees’ use of AI,  according to a new article from the Wall Street Journal .

By Gregory C. Hoff

Congress DOL Move Forward on White House AI Plan

On the heels of the White House’s recently released AI policy framework , both Congress and the Department of Labor made initial moves to implement some of its recommendations.

By Gregory C. Hoff

New DOL Wage Proposal Signals Higher Costs for Employers Sponsoring Global Talent

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a  Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)  that would significantly revise how prevailing wages are calculated for employers sponsoring foreign talent under the PERM labor certification program, as well as key nonimmigrant visa categories including H-1B, H-1B1, and E-3, and employment-based green card pathways such as EB-2 and EB-3.

By Chatrane Birbal

Webinar Beyond Compliance What the EU Pay Transparency Directive Signals for Global HR Leadership

The CHRO Association launched its  EU Pay Transparency Masterclass Series  with a conversation that underscored a broader shift facing global employers: pay transparency is moving from a regulatory requirement to a defining feature of global workforce management.

By Wenchao Dong

Glass Lewis Warns of Rising Costs of Special Awards

Glass Lewis’  message is clear: make-whole awards and retention grants may be increasingly common, but that does not make them investor-friendly. The firm casts a skeptical eye on one-time awards, making the point that together, these awards may fuel a compensation arms race: one company grants retention awards, another must offer a larger make-whole, and the cycle repeats.

By Megan Wolf

Investors Sue SEC over Shareholder Proposals

As You Sow and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility are  taking the SEC to court , arguing the agency quietly rewired a core gatekeeping process that determines whether companies can keep shareholder proposals off the ballot.

By Ani Huang

Early 2026 Proxy Trends Perks and AI

In  Pearl Meyer’s  look at 37 S&P 500 companies who have already filed their 2026 proxies, three early signals stand out.

By Megan Wolf

HR Executive How Leading Chros Are Turning AI Ambition into Business Outcomes

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Yahoo Finance 2026 Survey Reveals AI Dominates Focus for HR Executives as Uncertainty Abounds

A Corporate Aircraft Program Compliance Primer

Corporate jets are a practical tool: they enable tighter schedules, safer routing, secure conversations, and the ability to get executives where they need to be, fast. But compliance is tricky when these programs operate amid aviation operations finance, tax, legal, payroll, and disclosure regulations.

By Megan Wolf

When Your Board Starts Running the Company

We’ve all experienced it – that moment when the Board starts to cross the line from oversight to management, in a less than helpful way. A new  HBR piece  details why this happens and how to best handle it to the satisfaction of all involved.

By Ani Huang

Lti and the Middle Ground

Amid the controversy over whether performance shares actually work, FW Cook explains how committees can utilize a new LTI spectrum to consider a thoughtful “middle ground.”

By Megan Wolf

Regulatory Roundup NLRB Cemex Bargaining Orders Struck Down New DOL Joint Employer Rule Again and More

A federal court of appeals struck down the Biden-era’s NLRB landmark  Cemex  case, which had allowed for unions to more easily gain representation without elections. Meanwhile, the DOL is engaging in new rulemakings for joint employer status and 401(k) plans, and states continue to pass laws allowing benefits for contractors. Catch up the latest federal and state regulatory developments impacting your workplace below.

By Gregory C. Hoff

Patterns in AI Use Avoiding Brain Fry and Reducing Burnout

A new study of nearly 1500 full-time U.S workers  by the Boston Consulting Group published in the Harvard Business Review found that certain AI use cases can create mental stress, while others significantly reduce it, highlighting the importance of leveraging AI solutions in the right contexts.

By Gregory C. Hoff

When AI Becomes an Operating Discipline

If the last two years were AI's awkward adolescence, 2026 will be its adulthood. The era of clever demos, pilots, and chatbot trial and error is giving way to something tougher and far more consequential: operational discipline.

By Megan Wolf

AI Is Reshaping Work but Not Replacing It

Upwork's  sixth annual skills report  cuts through the noise on AI and workforce disruption with real hiring data.

By Ani Huang

CEO Succession from Selection to Support

Boards are making bigger bets on less proven leaders at exactly the moment when the job is getting harder. AI disruption, activist pressure, economic volatility and rising expectations for rapid transformation have compressed the window for a new CEO to make an impact.

By Megan Wolf

Report Growing Pressures Forcing Employees Inward

Employees across all industries are investing in their path forward with their current employer, while still steeking greater stability, according to  Mercer’s 2026 Inside Employees’ Minds Report.

By Gregory C. Hoff

2026 CHRO Survey Key Findings

Cjeu on Collective Bargaining and Public Contracts

By Tom Hayes

EWCS Two Words Intentional Negligent Are Critical

By Tom Hayes

UK Employment Rights Act Pop up Unions

By Tom Hayes

Ireland Trade Union Recognition

By Tom Hayes

EU Sanctions Chinese and Iranian Hackers

By Derek Mooney

From Policy to Practice: Navigating Workforce Priorities Under the Trump Administration

CHRO Association’s Ani Huang and Chatrane Birbal cut through the noise to give members a clear-eyed outlook on what's actually changing (and what isn't)  on the U.S. policy front through year-end.

By Megan Wolf

What “Human Thriving” Means in the Workplace

What does it actually mean to "thrive"? The 2026 CHRO Summit concluded with journalist and author Hoda Kotb joined by Monique Herena, CHRO of American Express and Nickle Lamoreaux, CHRO of IBM in a discussion to peel back the layers of leadership, resilience, and the often-ignored gap between being "busy" and being "intentional." 

By Wenchao Dong

Early Lessons from CHROs Leading AI Adoption

Led by Jacqui Canney, Chief People Officer at ServiceNow, HR leaders compared early experiences using artificial intelligence in HR operations. The conversation focused on experiments, successes, and key learnings as adoption accelerates.

World Class Hrbps Insights from Cahrs and Real World Practice

Kevin Cox moderated a discussion of the changing role of the HR business partner and where the future lies, including how organizations have restructured their HRBP model to meet modern business demands.

Caregiving as a Workforce Imperative: Closing the Awareness and Access Gap

Amanda Poole, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Bristol Myers Squibb, opened the conversation with a simple but powerful reminder: “AI cannot care.” While technology continues to reshape the workplace, the impact of caregiving on the workforce remains an essential—and deeply human—dimension the workforce experiences that impacts engagement, retention and productivity. 

By Chatrane Birbal

Leadership in a Restless World: Geopolitics, Governance, and Resilience

The Summit’s final day kicked off with an expert’s guide to leadership in an increasingly complex external environment, as retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis discussed the current geopolitical environment and how leaders can connect the dots between events and their companies’ interests, and remain resilient while navigating their organizations through the uncertainty.

By Gregory C. Hoff

Leading the Hybrid Human-AI Workforce

Professor Ethan Mollick’s fireside chat with Parker Mitchell captivated the audience with his insights on how leaders should think about – and act upon – AI’s impact on work, the workforce, and organizational design.  

By Megan Wolf

Developing the AI-Enabled Workplace

In the first of the Summit’s four breakout sessions on AI, Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute, and Ryan Craig, CHRO, Elevance Health, led attendees on a journey through developing workforce capabilities, skills, and learning for an AI-enabled workplace.

By Gregory C. Hoff

Measuring What Matters: The Real ROI of Enterprise AI

Georgeann Couchara of Danaher and Ernest Ng of Workday spoke with the Association’s Ani Huang to tackle the question many teams are quietly avoiding: how do you actually measure the return on AI investment?  

By Megan Wolf

Inside Implementation: How Enterprise HR Leaders are Deploying AI at Scale

Stephanie Lundquist of Cargill led this breakout session featuring CHROs discussing lessons learned from AI implementation inside global organizations, including identifying priority use cases, navigating change management, governance, and facilitating workforce buy-in.

By Gregory C. Hoff

The CEO–CHRO Partnership: A Fireside Chat with Optum CEO Patrick Conway and Chief People Officer Kristi Hummel

The Summit kicked off with an opening session focused on the importance of strategic alignment between the CEO and CHRO, as Optum CEO Dr. Patrick Conway was joined by Chief People Officer Kristi Hummel in an illuminating discussion on leadership.

By Chatrane Birbal

SEC Chair Calls for Minimum Effective Dose of Disclosure

The SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) had its first meeting of the year - and reducing unnecessary proxy disclosure was first on the agenda.

By Ani Huang

Five Ways AI Is Rewriting Shareholder Engagement

For decades, shareholder engagement was a craft refined meeting by meeting, quarter by quarter, relationship by relationship. AI is turning that playbook into a continuous, personalized, data-validated negotiation where investors’ algorithms measurements matter more than what your CEO says.

By Megan Wolf

The Case for AI Native Proxy Voting

Every year, institutional investors cast millions of votes on behalf of everyday investors through proxy voting. Most don’t do it themselves.

By Megan Wolf

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By Tom Hayes

Argentina Labor Reform Advances in Congress

Argentina’s Congress has now approved a labor reform backed by President Javier Milei - a success for the government’s second attempt to modernize the country’s rigid labor framework. While earlier proposals suggested broader structural change,the new one is narrower and focuses more heavily on reducing hiring costs and encouraging formal employment.

By Wenchao Dong