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Hope you’re all having a great Friday and for those of you taking a long weekend for Labor Day, we hope you read this on Tuesday. Enjoy the break!🏝️

On Tuesday, we looked at the job hugging epidemic, but the only hugging in todays’s edition is job seekers hugging the escape key because that application form. Is. Just. Way. Too. Long! 😩

Without further ado, it’s the Friday 5!

Five articles, five takeaways. Five minutes away from the chaos to grab a coffee and get caught up on everything that’s been happening in HR this week!

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In today’s edition

⚖️ Workday dodges customer list disclosure in bias case, 📉 Google axes 35% of managers in efficiency drive, 💔 6 in 10 job seekers abandon applications mid-process, ✍️ Taylor Swift's quirky 3-pen productivity hack, 🤖 Mark Cuban tells Gen Z to master AI or get left behind

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💭The Friday Five

When tech giants are cutting corners faster than candidates can quit applications - it's efficiency season in corporate America! 🏢🫡

🏛️ Workday wins partial privacy protection in discrimination lawsuit. Federal judge allows HR tech giant to limit customer list disclosure while facing age bias claims over AI hiring tools.

🔗 Read more [HR Dive]

✂️ Google slashes management ranks by 35% in Pichai's efficiency overhaul. CEO targets small-team leaders as company pivots from growth-at-all-costs to leaner operations amid AI investments.

🔗 Read more [The HR Digest]

🚪 Nearly 60% of job candidates quit applications before finishing. Frustration with lengthy processes and zero feedback drives mass abandonment as workers lose faith in human resume review.

🔗 Read more [HR Dive]

🖊️ Taylor Swift's "dorky" three-pen trick could boost your productivity. Pop superstar's creative method of imagining different writing tools for different tasks has solid science backing. Btw, did you hear she got engaged this week?! I’m surprised it wasn’t in the news? 🤔

🔗 Read more [Inc.]

💡 Mark Cuban urges Gen Z to become AI implementation experts. Billionaire sees massive opportunity for young workers to teach older managers proper AI adoption as 95% of corporate pilots fail.

🔗 Read more [HR Grapevine]

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