Matthew Sellers

Matthew Sellers

Human Resources Director America

Matthew Sellers

Journalist

7 years experience158,686 Total views on Human Resources Director in 2025

Matthew's specialty topics

AI Employment Law Labour Market Analysis Future of Work

Matthew Sellers is a journalist at HRD with an Economics degree and a sharp eye for the research, rulings, and corporate decisions that HR leaders need to understand before everyone else does.

His reporting connects the dots between macroeconomic signals and the workplace — covering AI's impact on jobs and hiring, remote work policy, employment law, labour market data, and the leadership and benefits questions keeping executives up at night.

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Featured content from Matthew

Is AI nicer than your staff? Court blocks United Airlines' union contract defense in age bias case Deloitte's AI mess just got worse – and HR should be paying close attention

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree, Business/Managerial Economics, Nene College, Leicster University

Read the latest stories by Matthew

High profile Hollywood battle shows worker classification can decide whether your insurance pays

A federal judge ruled that Blake Lively was a contractor, not an employee. Justin Baldoni is now using that ruling to make an insurer pay his legal bills.

High profile Hollywood battle shows worker classification can decide whether your insurance pays

What HR should take from the FTC's record-breaking Amway settlement

Federal government’s record penalty shows how far ‘earnings claims’ enforcement has spread into recruiting, sales comp and the gig economy

What HR should take from the FTC's record-breaking Amway settlement

Will AI replace headhunters?

Like them or loathe them, recruiters could be facing a reckoning

Will AI replace headhunters?

Ex-labor secretary drank at work, created toxic culture, watchdog says

A federal watchdog found Lori Chavez-DeRemer misused funds, tasked staff with personal errands and had an inappropriate relationship with a security agent

Ex-labor secretary drank at work, created toxic culture, watchdog says

The hidden AI jobs effect in the latest labor statistics

The numbers look great, but is there a concerning trend in them?

The hidden AI jobs effect in the latest labor statistics

Uber tries to slow driverless cars by siding with union

But it’s not about employees – it’s about Waymo

Uber tries to slow driverless cars by siding with union

Bill Gates calls for human-reserved jobs as AI reshapes work

The Microsoft co-founder’s 6,000-word essay proposes taxing AI systems and protecting certain roles from automation

Bill Gates calls for human-reserved jobs as AI reshapes work

Why employers can no longer trust an old LinkedIn job title

Is 'time travel' being used to try to fool you?

Why employers can no longer trust an old LinkedIn job title

Older women, younger men

Is Hollywood's latest fad a reflection of a new workplace dynamic?

Older women, younger men

The reminder email that works as well as a $2,500 bonus, and where it stops

New research comparing "nudges" with cash incentives gives HR and benefits leaders a sharper way to budget for flu season, and a warning about the limits of cheap behavioral fixes

The reminder email that works as well as a $2,500 bonus, and where it stops