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North America
Walmart México is recruiting software developers through Fortnite, making it the first Latin American employer to use the gaming platform for hiring. The initiative features a custom mini-game where candidates complete coding challenges in Java, iOS, and Android. Walmart is shifting its identity from a traditional retailer to a technology employer, having moved its IT hub from India to Mexico in 2025. The initiative targets the 72m gamers in Mexico, and emphasizes the transferability of gaming skills to workplace collaboration. Candidates competing in in-game challenges can apply via Walmart's Discord server or website.
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UK
Employers anticipate stable or increased pay growth in the coming year, driven by rising living costs, according to a poll by Incomes Data Research (IDR). The survey of 121 businesses employing nearly 3m people revealed that 44% expect pay growth to remain around 3%, while 28% predict higher increases. Zoe Woolacott from IDR said: "Inflation is currently higher than it was a year ago and this has applied upward pressure on pay." The median pay award is projected at 3.4%, with some firms considering increases of 4% or more.
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Europe
France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has ordered the country's ministries to shift their video calls to Visio, an application developed by the French government, from American-owned tools such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams, by the end of the year. “To guarantee the security, confidentiality and resilience of public electronic communications, it is . . . imperative to deploy a unified videoconferencing solution, controlled by the State, based on sovereign technologies,” he wrote in a letter. The tool was built by the French government with Outscale, a France-based cloud company, and enlisted two French AI companies, Pyannote and Kyutai, to offer transcription and subtitling services.
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Middle East
HR leaders say Ramadan can act as a reset as workers become more deliberate about how they structure their workday. They say that the first few days can be challenging, but reduced work hours during Ramadan can make employees work more efficiently and deliberately. “The first four to five days of Ramadan are often the most difficult, as the body adjusts to new eating, hydration, and sleep patterns. Once this adjustment phase passes, many people report a more stable and sustained level of energy throughout the day,” says Ussama Khan, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School. He advocates supportive workplace policies in order to make this “adjustment period” less demanding,
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Back in the distant 1980s if you wanted to demonstrate your environmental and ethical credentials it was sufficient to shop at or purchase shares in retailer The Body Shop. The charismatic Anita Roddick, founder of the “hippy” tinged retail chain, heralded a new age of environmental concern, caring capitalism and corporate awareness that evolved into what became known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR was much talked about and lauded, but in reality often ended up being a lot of a hot air (excuse the pun) and often never progressed much beyond a footnote in the annual report.
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To mark National Payroll Week the team at the Human Times has provided some insight into the industry that we hope you’ll find useful.
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