Human Resources
Talent, pay, policy and culture, chosen for the HR leader who has to answer for them on Monday.
Human Resources at The First Click is written for the people who own the workforce question: talent and hiring, compensation and benefits, workplace policy, and culture and engagement. Three stories a weekday at 11, each summarised in our own words and linked to the publisher. We favour the story that changes a decision over the story that confirms one: a survey with a number a compensation head will be asked about, a policy experiment that will be copied badly, a departure that says something about retention at the top. Artificial intelligence runs through most of them now, as a tool the workforce already uses whether or not the policy has caught up. The editor’s note under the day’s lead says why we chose it, and the Friday Funny lane keeps the stories that prove the point by making you laugh.
Every story we have kept in Human Resources, newest first. Headlines link to the publisher; the tags below narrow the list.
Best Workplace Culture Survey Tools for Benchmarking Against Your Industry in 2026
HR Future compares eight workplace-culture benchmarking platforms, evaluating dataset size, regional coverage and comparability for benchmarking an employer against its own industry.
Why “ChatGPT recommended it” won’t cut it for HR software decisions
HR leaders increasingly rely on ChatGPT recommendations when choosing software vendors, but AI outputs are inconsistent, favour visibility over fit, and lack accountability compared with human-driven decisions.
