If you are an employer with a predominantly hourly workforce, the past two years have been painful. As recently as December 2021, 4.3 million Americans left their jobs, down slightly from the record 4.5 million in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Digital transformation has been making headlines for some time now, and a previous study from IDC and Cornerstone showed that more than eight in 10 companies consider HR to play a very important role in ensuring those strategic projects are successful. Often, they also include the digitalisation of HR itself, or some of its components. This is why it’s important for HR professionals to keep up to date with the HR software lingo. What do we really mean when we talk about HRIS, Talent management, Learning management or Applicant Tracking?
The BTN was recently delighted to partner again with Allegis Global Solutions (AGS), the global leader in workforce solutions, for an exclusive virtual roundtable event. The session brought together senior business and HR leaders with the chance to hear fresh perspectives and ways to approach the increasing pressures companies face as they adjust to a changing workforce, whilst engaging with some of the best minds in the industry through an interactive discussion.
In today’s job market, candidate experience has to be top of mind for hiring managers. But hiring managers have a long list of tasks and don’t even have time to eat lunch, much less spend the time to send messages back and forth with candidates who may or may not drop out of the process and disappear completely anyway. We know engaging these candidates is important for keeping them in the hiring funnel, but being able to do that is a whole other issue.
How is Artificial Intelligence Used in Human Resources?
Even before the pandemic, smart HR teams were thinking about how to re-engineer their organisations to help them better survive in a fast-changing, increasingly volatile, unpredictable, complex and ambiguous world. What we've seen over the past year is an acceleration of that change and some truly inspirational and different responses to the how, when, why and where of work. It's a mega transformation to the world of work, the likes of which has not been experienced seen since the Industrial Revolution.
Part 2 of this series with Jonathan Bond (HR Director & Learning at Pinsent Masons), in partnership with PeopleSmart, looks at how you can build a culture of coaching throughout the business.
Over the last 2 weeks, a global pilot scheme for a 4 Day Working Week was launched. In the UK, 30 companies, incorporating around 600 employees in total, will take part in the 6-month trial.
In the second part of this series, with Neha Gupta (HR director at dunnhumby), in partnership with Globalization Partners, we continue the discussion on ‘Eliminating Barriers to Expansion’.
We welcome another insightful leader to this fascinating series around ‘Eliminating Barriers to Expansion’ in partnership with Globalization Partners, Neha Gupta (HR director at dunnhumby).
In this first video from the series, Neha discusses how technology has played a huge role in making global talent accessible around the world and how communication has changed.
As we continue this fascinating series around Leading into the Future, in partnership with PeopleSmart, we bring you Jonathan Bond (HR Director & Learning at Pinsent Masons).