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How the frontline actually hires.
How to Manage Gen Z Employees on the Frontline
Gen Z now makes up 41% of the U.S. shift workforce, overtaking Millennials in Deputy’s analysis of more than 41…
10 Practical Tips for Managing Millennials in the Workforce
Millennials are roughly 30 to 45 years old in 2026, and the label now covers store managers, warehouse leads, working…
Internal Mobility for Hourly Workers: How to Build Promote-From-Within Paths
More than 70% of frontline employees have applied for a promotion or new role, according to McKinsey, and fewer than…
Stay Interviews: How to Catch Frontline Attrition Before It Happens
43% of frontline new hires are gone within 90 days, and replacing each one costs about $7,000, according to the…
Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Employees: Keeping Classification Consistent From Requisition to Payroll
Exempt and non-exempt status is a pay-and-duties classification decision that legal counsel makes and periodically revisits, not a one-time label…
What Is Ban the Box? A Fair Chance Hiring Guide for High-Volume Employers
Ban-the-box takes its name from the criminal-history checkbox that used to sit on nearly every job application; the laws remove…
How to Reduce Application Time Costs: A Guide for Frontline Hiring Managers
Every open frontline role runs two clocks at once. One belongs to the candidate, who is deciding whether the form…
What Is an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
Applicant tracking systems are standard hiring infrastructure: Jobscan’s August 2026 research detected an ATS for 97.4% of Fortune 500 companies.…
What Is Time to Hire? Recruiting Metrics That Matter
Time to hire is the number of calendar days between the date a candidate enters your pipeline and the date…
AI in Restaurant Operations: How It Fixes Hiring and Shift Coverage
Restaurant operators are buying AI faster than they can prove it works: 73% are investing, but only 5% report measurable…
Employer Branding Recruitment Strategy for Frontline Hiring
Replacing a frontline employee costs about $7,000, and 43% of new hires are gone within 90 days. At hourly volume,…
Onboarding and Retention: Why Speed Matters for Frontline Hires
43% of frontline new hires leave within 90 days, according to the 2025 Fountain Frontline Report, Fountain’s survey of nearly…
What Is Mobile Recruiting? A Guide for Frontline Hiring Teams
Frontline candidates search, apply, and reply on their phones. Mobile applications now outpace desktop applications, so teams should test every…
How to Perform Background Checks on Employees: A Step-by-Step Guide
A single compliant background check is easy to track manually. At hundreds of checks a month across dozens of locations,…
Multi-Agent AI Systems: What Happens Between the Agents
Vendor rosters have gotten long. Eightfold ships four named talent agents, Radancy covers five stages, and Maki names five it…
Warehouse Worker Compliance: What to Document for Every Hire
Most warehouse compliance guidance reads as an equipment problem. Most of what an employer actually gets penalized for is a…
The Hiring Metrics to Track and How Often to Report Them
Hiring teams collect more data than they did five years ago and still face unfilled shifts. In Korn Ferry’s 2025…
Fountain Achieves ISO/IEC 42001:2023 Certification for Its AI Management System
Fountain has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its AI Management System, the governance framework behind the company’s agentic AI products.…