HR Technology

The key in 2026 is to take a strategic, data-driven approach to employee benefits, designing programs that are both affordable and personalized to support employees and also attracting and retaining talent.

In a letter to staff, CEO Evan Spiegal said rapid AI advances have enabled Snap teams to "reduce repetitive work, increase velocity and better support our community, partners and advertisers."

Lawmakers are increasingly scrutinizing employers' use of AI and automated decision tools to set or influence employee compensation, with the stated aim of curbing potentially discriminatory impacts resulting from the use of algorithmic wage setting and increasing transparency to employees and applicants regarding the use of such technology.

Administrative waste costs the U.S. health care system an estimated $350 billion each year. This includes $266 billion that is attributed to administrative complexity and between $59 and $84 billion caused by fraud and abuse.

Workers in several sectors have already won contracts that constrain how monitoring data can be used for attendance, performance evaluation, discipline or interference with protected activity, according to the UC Berkeley Labor Center's inventory of union contracts.

New leadership often means big changes, and in this era of mass layoffs, does a CEO change mean big workforce reductions are a guarantee? Recent headlines wouldn't disprove that theory.