New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
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An effective HRBP team is a strategic partner for the organization’s business leaders, understands the company’s priorities, and develops HR strategies that support these goals. Organizations with efficient HR Business Partners report better employee performance and profits of 22% and 9%, respective…
When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results. But your data passes through systems you do not own, u…
Every recruiter who has opened their ATS in the past year has felt it: something has shifted. The applications look different. They read smoother, hit more keywords, and sound eerily similar to one another. That uniformity is not a coincidence. According to a 2025 report from Career Group Companies,…
01/07-2026 - Forbes: Tesla’s Electric Semi Has Its First Fatal Crash: Two people in a small Volkswagen Beetle died after the massive battery-powered truck slammed into them at a highway intersection in Nevada, not far from the factory that builds it. RIP.
29/6-2026: Dialogues are always interesting; a few words from Professor Carissa Véliz: “WhatsApp is not a privacy-friendly app overall,” said Carissa Véliz, a professor at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. “It collects a lot of metadata about users for marketing purposes. We have to remember that WhatsApp is owned by Meta – one of the tech companies with one of the worst track records when it comes to privacy.”
Sad news 29/6-2026: The devastating earthquakes in Venezuela are expected to claim many more lives than have already been reported, says the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Venezuela, Gianluca Rampolla del Tindaro. The number of dead will “inevitably and unfortunately continue to rise”, he says. The UN is preparing for over 10,000 fatalities. Many of the victims have not yet been found.
28/6-2026: "New figures from France show that during the heatwave, in recent days, they have recorded daily excess mortality of up to 40 per cent."
Denmark recorded its hottest day ever measured on 27 June 2026. We also had quite a lot of rain last night. Another very warm day today, 28 June 2026.
Industriferie is the informal but deeply embedded Danish summer shutdown period that developed alongside industrial working culture in the 20th century, where factories, offices and service sectors gradually coordinated collective holidays during the summer weeks, creating a national rhythm where production slows significantly and large parts of the workforce take extended leave, resulting in quieter cities, reduced business activity and a strong cultural expectation of summer rest – 29 June 2026 – 2 August 2026.
July and August — Workforce Planning and Headcount Review: Starts: 1 July | Deadline: 31 August (plan submitted to finance): Workforce planning ensures the organisation has the right people, with the right competencies, knowledge and skills, in the right roles at the right time. Summer is the right moment for this work — it is the quietest operational period, giving senior leaders the space for strategic conversations. The plan must be complete before the autumn budget process closes, because people costs are typically the largest single line in any company's budget. The gap between today's workforce and tomorrow's requirements drives every recruitment, development, and succession decision that follows.