Industry Insights

Harvard Business Review just put a number on something a lot of hiring managers have only whispered about. After interviewing 120 talent-acquisition leaders and analyzing 6,380 recorded first-round screening sessions, the authors concluded that companies now risk selecting for candidates who are best at navigating the hiring process, not best equipped to do the job…

Here’s the number that should make every hiring manager flinch. 82% of workers say pay transparency matters to them, but only 34% believe they actually work somewhere that practices it. That’s a 48-percentage-point gap between what people want and what they think they’re getting, according to G-P and Talker Research’s ‘Borderless Pay Standard’ study. Call…

Here’s a number that should reframe how you think about who’s restless at work right now: 46% of U.S. professionals plan to look for a new job in the next six months. One year ago that figure was just 27%, according to Robert Half data reported by Staffing Industry Analysts. That’s a 19-percentage-point jump in…

Here’s the number that should make you squint: 56% of 2026 layoff events now explicitly cite AI, automation, or machine learning as a reason, according to the SkillSyncer 2026 Tech Layoffs Tracker. That’s 150 out of 267 tracked events, roughly 156,270 workers across 150 companies. Now here’s the part nobody wants to say out loud….