The challenges companies face today are like none before. The “great resignation” has heightened the war for talent, as attracting, retaining, rewarding, and developing the workforce has a direct effect on profitability. Managing rapid growth is key to a company’s success, and having a strong workforce goes a long way toward managing that growth. It’s […]
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When you join a new company as the head of People Solutions, HR Operations, HRIS and Analytics, or any other related titles, it is, most of the time, to initiate or rejuvenate a digital transformation desperately needed to lift the HR function to a new and necessary height. Each time, I joined a new company,
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HR Technology is seeing unprecedented growth. That’s a result of and in response to more complexity in HR management and workforce service delivery, not just from the pandemic. While there’s interest in more system solutions to respond to changes to how we work and a need for a virtual work ecosystem, systems expansions may result
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Welcome to 2022 and continued volatile times. For this quarter’s publication the WSR editors chose the theme of HCM Strategy and Roadmaps, recognizing that as we go into our third year of the pandemic and the new ways of working, we need to re-evaluate and reset our plans for HR systems. While organizations are challenged
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2021 was another turbulent year for HR leaders, facing tight labor markets (characterized by rising demand for new hires and low unemployment rates) and uncertainty over legal, regulatory, and health constraints that will undoubtedly impact productivity and workforce availability as we head into 2022. Leaders are also knee-deep in how they adjust to the remote,
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The challenges of achieving diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace are well documented. For years, the best intentions of even the most genuinely committed individuals and institutions fell far too short in closing the inequities gap. Despite the shortcomings, the failures of “managing diversity” have yielded a few important lessons and actionable insights. The
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While data and analytics, and the technologies that render them explicit, play an important enabling role in improving diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations and society, algorithmic methods such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) bring potential risks that must be recognized and addressed. It is incumbent upon strategists, policy makers, vendors, implementers
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It was 58 years ago, in 1963, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. With limited exceptions, it prohibited employers from discriminating between employees based on gender when the jobs they perform require equal skill, effort and responsibility and are performed under similar working conditions. For global organizations concerned
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The past two years have challenged employers and employees like never before, as the way we work has changed across the country and around the world. Two things have kept businesses alive and functioning through these extraordinary challenges: technology, which helped more people work from home than ever before, and, human capital, the people who
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