TD Bank is accused in a federal suit filed October 12 of firing a customer service representative while she was on mental health leave. The allegations are untested; they turn on how a supervisor, HR and an outside administrator each handled one leave request.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap
- Insufficient
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence40
LendingTree's analysis of Census data shows South Carolina gaining a net 22,843 adults aged 18 to 27 in 2024 and California losing 58,109. With 38.1% of those movers enrolled in college, many moves are to campuses, so the tables guide hiring less than they appear to.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
HCCI claims data shows price increases drove 90% of the nearly 19% rise in per-person employer health spending between 2019 and 2023. That moves the cost question to price per service, and HCCI's chief executive points employers to direct provider negotiation.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence58
Harvard's public health school fired an associate director of finance on his 15th business day, after Rosh Hashanah leave, a federal complaint alleges. The filing is one side's account and no ruling is reported, but its sequence is one managers can test their own onboarding against.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence45
Wiley's research arm found 84% of employees whose manager always has time to develop them are very likely to stay, against 41% when the manager never does. That puts protected manager time first in career-pathing budgets, though the evidence is survey data on intent to stay, gathered by a learning company.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives65
- Confidence40