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Most HR professionals say it will be the responsibility of middle managers to reshape entry-level roles as artificial intelligence changes the workplace, and new hires were more likely to prefer their new role if it offered a better work-life balance.
Here’s a closer look at those numbers and some of the others making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
8
The percentage point decrease of service sector workers who had to work back-to-back closing and opening shifts after Fair Workweek laws were implemented, according to a study published in Science Advances.
18%
How much more likely new hires were to consider their new role better than their previous one if it fostered better work-life balance, a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report found.
More than 90%
The share of HR professionals surveyed who said that reshaping entry-level positions in response to AI changes was up to middle managers, according to a joint study from Cognizant and Pearson.
91
The number of years that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. — which safeguarded heads of certain independent federal agencies from at-will removal by the president — stood before being struck down Monday.

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