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Most growing businesses hit the same inflection point. The owner can't be everywhere anymore. They need people in the middle — coordinating, communicating, keeping things moving. So they do what makes sense: they promote the person who's best at the job. It feels like...

For the past two years, DEI and immigration were what employers spent the most time worrying about. This year, AI has replaced both, and it isn't close. Littler's 14th Annual Employer Survey, pulling from more than 300 C-suite executives, in-house lawyers, and HR...

On April 22, 2026, the Department of Justice issued a final order rescheduling state-licensed medical marijuana and FDA-approved marijuana products from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. For most employers, this registered as regulatory...

When organizations model the cost of a tariff-driven workforce decision, they tend to look at the same variables: headcount reduction savings, severance, recruitment costs if roles need to be backfilled. Some track management time. The more thorough ones factor in...

Something contradictory is happening in organizations across the country right now. In Q1, headcount was cut. Roles were eliminated, hiring was frozen, and the decision was framed as a necessary response to economic uncertainty. According to a recent survey of U.S....

Every Q2 planning season, the same conversation happens in leadership teams: someone pulls up what was spent on HR last quarter: compliance, consultants, policies, training and the question lands on the table: What did we actually get for this? It's a fair question....