The 10 Must-Read Articles for Recruiters This Week

For proponents of salary transparency, there was some big news out of New York City just last month. In a vote of 41 to 7, the city council enacted a bill that will soon require employers within the United States’ largest metropolis to include minimum and maximum starting salaries in their job descriptions.

“Every New Yorker,” council member Helen Rosenthal said of the new law, “should have the right to determine whether they will be able to support themselves and their family when they apply for a job. It is time to level the playing field.”

To learn more about the bill and how it could even affect recruiters and candidates well outside of New York’s city limits, be sure to check out Forbes’s story at the top of our list below of must-read articles for talent professionals. “This could help close the gender pay gap,” writes executive recruiter Jack Kelly. “This law greatly benefits a top candidate who is earning considerably less than what she is being offered for a similar job at a competing firm.”

And further down our list, you can also learn why some heads of HR feel like their jobs have expanded into school nurse duties; how yet another company is experimenting with a version of the four-day workweek; and what tips John Vlastelica has for acquisition teams that are stretched to a breaking point.

Here are the must-read articles from this week:

1. A Big Win for Workers: New York City Will Make It Mandatory for Companies to Disclose Salaries on Job Advertisements (Forbes)

2. Your Head of HR Is Now Basically the School Nurse (The New York Times)

3. Panasonic Is Introducing an Optional Four-Day Workweek (Mashable)

4. The Hottest Hypergrowth Hire Is Still the Chief People Officer (LinkedIn)

5. Surging COVID-19 Puts an End to Projected Return-to-Office Dates (The Wall Street Journal)

6. What We Can Do as TA Leaders When We’re Stretched Too Thin (LinkedIn Talent Blog)

7. Will Workers Continue to Pay a Price for Flexibility? (BBC Worklife)

8. ¾ of Employers Fail to Seek Candidate Feedback (ERE)

9. Is the ‘She-Cession’ Over? Statistics Point to Recovery, Experts Aren't So Sure (CBC)

10. Your Work Is Not Your God: Welcome to the Age of the Burnout Epidemic (The Guardian)

This week’s must-listen podcast:

Reflecting Back, Looking Forward (Recruiting Future with Matt Alder)

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