BMW’s internal HR portal was overwhelmed after the automaker emailed employees in Germany about individual voluntary severance offers on October 8, Handelsblatt reported the following day. About 40,000 eligible employees could access personalised offers, according to a report citing German automotive trade coverage. That figure refers to access to the programme, not to employees who…
Workday announced AI agent capabilities for hiring, payroll, accounting and compliance on October 13 at its Workday Rising event in Las Vegas. The company said the tools are designed to monitor workflows and carry out routine tasks, with customers able to determine which actions can happen autonomously and which need review or approval. The Talent…
Paychex’s SixFifty has launched an agentic HR compliance specialist that can answer employment-law questions and perform multi-step compliance tasks, the company announced Oct. 13. The tool can draft or update employee handbooks and policies, distribute labor-law posters and new-hire notices, provision required training, and track employee acknowledgments. SixFifty’s standalone customers and trial users could access…
Netflix plans to eliminate roughly 6% of its global workforce, or about 1,000 jobs, in organizational changes announced by co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters to employees on October 14. Product, technology, legal and human-resources teams are expected to be among the most affected, according to the leaders’ memo. They framed the reductions as a…
Nearly all HR leaders surveyed by workforce technology provider isolved said their teams are viewed as strategic, even as repetitive employee questions and skills gaps constrain their capacity. The company released its 2026 HR Leaders Report on Oct. 14. The report is based on a second-quarter survey of 1,005 U.S. HR decision-makers in management roles…