Howdy HR friends!👋

Hope you’re all having a great Friday! Whether you’ve just brewed the coffee or if you’re already shutting things down for the weekend.

On Tuesday, we look at recruiting red flags and what your business can do to make your application process more user friendly. And make any reds a little more orangey/yellow at least.

As the weekend accelerates towards us, it’s time for a quick rundown of this week’s HR news. That’s right: 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!

Let’s jump in shall we?

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In today’s edition

🤖 OpenAI launching job platform for AI-savvy workers

😰 Workplace safety now means mental health over hard hats

👔 Under Armour CEO says micromanagement is "underestimated"

💰 Elon Musk's potential $1 trillion pay package breaks all compensation norms

👥 Most workers would take a pay cut to work with close friends

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💭The Friday Five

From trillion-dollar pay packages to friendship pay cuts…

🤖 OpenAI wants to become your career matchmaker. The AI giant is building a jobs platform launching in 2026 that'll connect employers with AI-certified candidates, potentially disrupting LinkedIn and changing how we job hunt forever.

🔗 Read more [Built In]

😰 Mental health now tops workplace safety concerns. Forget hard hats - health outbreaks and burnout have overtaken physical injuries as workers' biggest safety worries, with Gen-Z particularly anxious about mental wellbeing and work-life balance.

🔗 Read more [Inc.]

👔 Under Armour CEO doubles down on micromanagement. Kevin Plank says the widely-criticized management style is "totally underestimated" and necessary for speed, as employees return to office four days a week at company headquarters.

🔗 Read more [HR Grapevine]

💰 Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire. Tesla's board ditched traditional compensation benchmarking to propose a $1 trillion pay package, arguing no other CEO faces goals as complex as transforming society itself.

🔗 Read more [HR Brew]

👥 Friendship beats salary for most workers. 57% of employees would accept 10% below market rate to work with close friends, as workplace loneliness doubles and companies scramble to engineer connection.

🔗 Read more [HR Dive]

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That’s it for today.

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