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Time for the Friday 🖐️ ! 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!

This week's stories have one thing in common: the systems meant to make work fairer are pretty much doing the opposite. Algorithms are being used to lowball your salary, HR best practices are showing up as courtroom evidence, and a 6am email is apparently now an acceptable way to end someone's career.

Well at least the more visible these practices become, the harder they are to ignore, and that's where HR leaders have a real opportunity to do things differently.

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In today’s edition

🕵️ Bosses are using your data to pay you as little as possible

💼 A resume startup is suing over a secret industry monopoly

🎓 Zapier wants to teach one million people AI for free

📧 Oracle wrote the playbook on how not to do layoffs

⚖️ Amazon's own HR systems are now front and center in a gender pay lawsuit

💭The Friday Five

Your employer has done more research on you than you did on them

🕵️ Your desperation is now a data point. Employers are feeding payday loan history, social media and credit scores into AI to calculate the lowest salary you'll accept — without you ever knowing. 🔗 Read more - MarketWatch

💼 Your resume builder has a secret landlord. Bold Limited allegedly hides ownership of 20+ brands — including Monster and CareerBuilder — controlling 80% of the market while rivals can't match its ad spend. 🔗 Read more - HR Dive

🎓 Zapier wants to make you an AI person. The automation giant is pledging free AI education to one million people via live workshops, bootcamps and self-paced courses — no tech background required. 🔗 Read more - HR Dive

📧 Oracle wrote the layoff horror story. 30,000 workers got a 6am email from "Oracle Leadership," were locked out instantly, and offered four weeks' pay — while Block gave 20 weeks plus a $5k stipend. 🔗 Read more - HR Executive

⚖️ Amazon's HR best practices are its legal worst nightmare. A class action claims Amazon's own job codes, pay algorithms and promotion cycles systematically slot women into lower-paid roles — even doing identical work to male colleagues. 🔗 Read more - HCA Mag

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