🌿 HR Wellness Reset, Feedback Template Freebie, HR Leaders Leaving - Sep 26, 2025

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On today’s agenda:

🌿 Wellness reset tips

⚙️ HR software selection guide

💬 Employee feedback template

🚪 HR leaders leaving jobs

THE HR SPOTLIGHT

🌿 HR Wellness Reset: Boundaries, Balance & Breathing Space

HR pros spend so much time looking after everyone else that their own well-being often takes a back seat. As HR Professionals Day spotlights your role, it’s the perfect time to address how HR wellness impacts not just you, but the whole workforce you support.

👀 What’s happening: HR leaders are reporting higher rates of stress and burnout than most other professions, with 76％ saying they’ve experienced burnout. (Oak)

The “always-on” culture—constant Slack pings, urgent employee requests, compliance deadlines—means many HR pros never fully unplug. 

💙 The wellness agenda: 

1. Model boundaries: Set and respect after-hours limits to normalize work-life balance.

2. Wellness check-ins: Build short wellness pulses or surveys for both HR teams and employees.

3. Peer support groups: Create safe spaces where HR staff can vent, share strategies, and swap coping tools.

4. Micro-breaks: Encourage 5-minute screen-free pauses with movement or breathing exercises during peak stress days.

5. Friday wrap-up & reset rituals: Spend the last 15 minutes clearing your desk, inbox, and tasks to signal a fresh start next week. End the week with a “Monday-ready” checklist so you can recharge in peace over the weekend.

📌 Healthy HR = healthy workplace.

Turn burnout to balance by ending the workweek with more self-care tips as your shield: Combatting HR Burnout » 

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 🤝 Tech Pact, Big Upside - HR Grapevine

• What’s unfolding: The UK and U.S. just inked a “Tech Prosperity Deal” that channels ~£31B into AI, quantum, and infrastructure projects to create tens of thousands of skilled jobs.

• Why it matters: This surge in investment signals a looming war for digital talent—HR must rethink its skills pipelines, emphasizing training, upskilling, and agile recruiting to stay ahead.

• What’s unfolding: According to a recent survey, by end of 2026, 37％ of companies expect to replace roles with AI, especially in process-driven roles.

• Why it matters: For HR, that means preparing for disruption—not panic. You’ll need to lead skill audits, reskilling strategies, and rethink how human + AI roles collaborate to preserve morale.

• What’s unfolding: In the UK, a survey of ~300 HR pros finds 65％ plan to leave their current jobs, citing the desire to learn new skills or improve work-life balance.

• Why it matters: Your internal HR team is not immune. If HR leaders start walking, institutional knowledge and culture take a hit. Prioritize retention, career development, and check-in conversations so your own team doesn’t burn out first.

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• What’s unfolding: Employers are being urged to adopt clearer and stronger speech policies in today’s hyper-polarized climate.

• HR implications: HR needs to revisit conduct and social media policies immediately to balance free expression with workplace harmony. Policies must be legally defensible—train managers on enforcement discretion and set a deadline for policy rollout.

• What’s unfolding: Washington Post opinion writer Karen Attiah, who was reportedly fired after social media posts responding to the Charlie Kirk assassination, says there was a labor agreement violation.

• HR implications: This underscores how employee posts—even outside work—can trigger brand and personnel risk. HR should review social media policies, ensure disciplinary procedures are fair, and institute pre-exit counselling or review for high-risk roles.

• What’s unfolding: The CDC announced it would stop allowing telework as a disability accommodation—then paused the enforcement after backlash.

• HR implications: This move raises serious ADA and employment law risks. HR must ensure accommodation processes are solid, monitor developments for legal posture, and prepare to respond or defend position quickly if challenged.

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