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3 weeks ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
Entry-level jobs are disappearing , but we can't leave it to recent grads to figure out next steps. Sofia was ready for the grunt work. Graduation from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management felt like a lifetime ago.
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1 month ago | 
vktr.com | Lance Haun
Klarna has some good company: over 55% of organizations that executed AI-driven layoffs now regret it. Tips on how to avoid the regrets. Klarna bragged that its chatbot handled 2.3 million customer chats a month. Unfortunately, the bill for lost trust is still climbing. It looked like a masterstroke: slash headcount by 24% (roughly 1,200 people), let AI handle the load and bask in headlines about innovation and efficiency.
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1 month ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
Klarna has some good company: over 55% of organizations that executed AI-driven layoffs now regret it. Tips on how to avoid the regrets. Klarna bragged that its chatbot handled 2.3 million customer chats a month. Unfortunately, the bill for lost trust is still climbing. It looked like a masterstroke: slash headcount by 24% (roughly 1,200 people), let AI handle the load and bask in headlines about innovation and efficiency.
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1 month ago | 
vktr.com | Lance Haun
The Carnegie Mellon study confirmed what many suspected: in spite of the promises of world-dominating results, agentic AI isn’t ready to run the ship. A group of researchers gave today’s top AI models the chance to run a company. The AI agents lied, got lost, rewrote reality and collapsed under the weight of basic office tasks. This is what’s supposed to take over our jobs?
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1 month ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
Gallup estimates poor employee engagement costs organizations $438 billion in productivity losses. So why does the drop barely register outside of HR circles? Employee engagement has been nothing if not reliable. Prior to 2024, 12 of the last 13 years saw engagement improve year over year. That single blip? It was in 2020 when, as you may recall, a global pandemic upended literally everything at work. That’s what makes Gallup’s April 23 report so striking: in 2024, global engagement dropped to 21%.
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1 month ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
The Carnegie Mellon study confirmed what many suspected: in spite of the promises of world-dominating results, agentic AI isn’t ready to run the ship. A group of researchers gave today’s top AI models the chance to run a company. The AI agents lied, got lost, rewrote reality and collapsed under the weight of basic office tasks. This is what’s supposed to take over our jobs?
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2 months ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
Talent acquisition and talent management have been an odd couple for years now. But the truth is, integrating the two offers significant advantages. Talent acquisition and HR are like that mismatched couple everyone wonders about. Talent acquisition is the flashy one — the recruiter swaggering into a room with a knack for salesmanship, closing deals and hitting quotas. HR is the dependable type, focused on nurturing, developing and retaining people once they're in the door.
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2 months ago | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
A series of high-profile layoffs have been blamed on "poor performance." The tactic will hurt these companies in the long-run. Imagine being called into a meeting and told your job is gone. Not because the company overestimated its growth or mismanaged its resources. Not because of changing market conditions or shifting priorities. You’re being let go, they say, because your performance isn’t up to par. Even though your most recent reviews suggest otherwise.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
There's big talk and bigger demand to become a skills-based workplace. The only problem? Companies don't know the skills they have. Some considerations. Organizations are trying to restructure their workforce on the fly, breaking down jobs into collections of skills and redeploying talent rapidly as automation and AI take over tasks once performed by people. All of this follows a several year push towards a skills-based workforce.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
reworked.co | Lance Haun
The talent paradox in action: Companies can't find people, and people don't feel like they have the upper hand. If you are or know someone looking for candidates or a job today, you won’t be surprised to hear that something's seriously off in the job market. Unemployment is still near historic lows (4.1% according to December data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics). There are a lot of job openings — not the highs of 2022 but there are a million more open jobs today than there were in late 2019.
