The HR Digest Magazine

4 days ago | thehrdigest.com | Ava Liz Martinez

HR Analytics has revolutionized the capabilities of the workplaces that have adopted these explorative systems, but some considerations have gone unexplored. Specifically, we’re talking about the relationship between HR analytics and data privacy. The link between HR data collection and privacy ethics is one that is often ignored, but the security concerns around HR tools must be addressed before we embrace the technology with open arms.

6 days ago | thehrdigest.com | Ava Liz Martinez

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest victim of the job cuts that are sweeping across the country. The recently announced CFPB layoffs are expected to affect around 1,500 employees, which should bring the workforce down from 1,800 workers to a measly 200. From what has been sparingly revealed, the CFPB workforce reduction plans were announced on April 17 and workers were given a day to wrap things up before they lost access to all their systems and emails.

1 week ago | thehrdigest.com | Ava Liz Martinez

After an early phase of job cuts this year, another round of layoffs at Google has been announced for 2025. This time, the Google layoffs are said to affect hundreds of employees in the platform and device unit, unlike the previous cut that targeted the HR and Cloud divisions of the company. This means that despite the recent successes of Google’s hardware, the Android team and Google Pixel workers will face layoffs on a very large scale.

1 week ago | thehrdigest.com | Ava Liz Martinez

A common refrain we’ve heard from workers across industries is that strong, inspiring leaders no longer exist—good leadership is a lost art. A common reason for this is that many leaders are burnt out and spread too thin to handle all their tasks. A good question, then, is whether delegation is the key to revitalizing leadership. Many seem to agree with that assessment.

1 week ago | thehrdigest.com | Ava Liz Martinez

Presented with a world of uncertainties, the fear of unemployment is on the rise. Americans are fearful of job losses at levels that match pandemic period concerns, and that says a lot about the state of the workplace today. In this new era of work, instead of being excited by the technological advances being made and the new innovations taking shape, workers are confronted by the reality of being entirely replaceable and disposable.