When Condé Nast folded Teen Vogue into Vogue.com, layoffs triggered employee doubts, culminating in a viral video involving the company's head of HR. Here are five communication reminders leaders can use to avoid similar outcomes.

"Running a DC plan can be challenging, but when done correctly, the difference it can make to participants is truly life changing," the Mercer report states.

The U.S. labor market is slowing, but attention to AI talent is surging, even as other areas contract, creating both challenges and opportunities for HR leaders.

HR teams often lack communication resources during the busy open enrollment season. This HR leader offers no-cost ways to simplify benefits information and get the most out this crucial time.

HR must help CEOs by guiding workforce strategy, clarifying talent costs, building AI literacy across leadership and evolving culture alongside technology. "You need to become much more of an enterprise leader, a true strategic navigator," said Peter Aykens, chief of research at Gartner.

"The announcement that we made a few days ago was not really financially driven, and it's not even really AI-driven, not right now at least," Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said in an earnings call. "It's culture."

"When you embed workforce planning into existing business routines, you don't need a new process," said Vincent Favre, organizational design leader at Danone.

According to two top CHROs, world-class HR ties strategy to measurable business impact and cuts what doesn't matter.