Keith Button

3 weeks ago | benefitnews.com | Keith Button

Now more than 20 years into her HR career, Brooke Shreeve says she has become an evangelist for chatbots, partly because of her survival instincts. "I have to stay up on what's new; if I don't I'll get replaced by somebody who will," says Shreeve, chief people officer at Weave, a healthcare payments software company.

1 month ago | benefitnews.com | Keith Button

When the Aspida insurance company launched in 2020, its chief people officer Sandy Ball saw an opportunity to create a company culture from scratch. She wanted that culture to appeal in particular to Gen Z and millennials, which eventually became 80% of the Durham, North Carolina, company's workforce, Ball says. "We were a startup. We needed an entrepreneurial mindset; we needed people that weren't hung up in bureaucracy," she says.

1 month ago | aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Keith Button

Firefly Aerospace claims mantle as first commercial company to make fully successful landing on the moonThe Mini Cooper-sized Blue Ghost lander that touched down on the moon this morning carries lots of interesting technologies, but chief among them are the crumple cartridges in its landing legs and the prototype of a small, radiation resilient computer of a kind that could ride on spacecraft headed to the moon or Mars.

1 month ago | benefitnews.com | Keith Button

More workers are feeling "rattled" — potentially just one setback away from seeking a new job or one positive development from staying on board, according to a newly released global survey of 38,000 workers. ADP classified workers into three categories: Thriving, overwhelmed or rattled. While thriving workers tend to experience pressure at work as positive stress, even enjoying last-minute "fire-drill deadlines," overwhelmed workers are more likely to experience work pressure as negative stress.

2 months ago | benefitnews.com | Keith Button

Rob Edwards became an advocate for neurodivergent people soon after his son's autism diagnosis nine years ago and subsequent ADHD diagnoses of other family members, including his own about three years ago. Now, as chief executive officer of the U.K.-based Neurodiversity and Entrepreneurship Association, he makes the case for why companies should hire and support neurodivergent employees: The 15-20% of the global population that includes people who have autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia.