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HR TOO BUSY TO UPSKILL?

Research from BCG has found that HR is one of the highly disrupted industries in terms of skills. That means that HR roles and the skills they require have changed rapidly and significantly, and...

Kimberly Burns (humaneer, Co-founder)Careen Redman-Matthews (humaneer, Co-founder)

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS LIKE GETTING A SMOKER TO QUIT: IF THEY DON'T WANT IT, IT WON'T HAPPEN?

Employee engagement levels have been dramatically low for years. Research from Gallup shows that last year in the US the annual employee engagement rate was 32%. Globally it was even lower, namely...

Andreas Irmer (Cegid, Director HR International)Teske Schröder (Planon, HR Integrations Director)

THE GREAT UNRETIREMENT: IT'S TIME TO LET GO OF RETIREMENT ALTOGETHER?

People who near their retirement age or are already retired increasingly "unretire". Meaning they continue to be active in the work life in some shape or form. Something that isn't spoken about...

Andreas Irmer (Cegid, Director HR International)Teske Schröder (Planon, HR Integrations Director)

ONSITE WORKING: ALL BETS ARE OFF WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING PEOPLE BACK IN THE OFFICE?

The Covid pandemic has created a massive shift from in-office to remote work. Now that the pandemic is over, we see a lot of companies that are trying to get people back in the office again....

Andreas Irmer (Cegid, Director HR International)Teske Schröder (Planon, HR Integrations Director)

EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY: TIME FOR THE 4-HOUR WORKDAY?

Slack's 2023 State of Work Report found that, for instance in the UK, 30% of an average worker's day is lost to activities merely meant to appear productive. When the internet became mainstream...

Linnea Bywall (Alva Labs, Head of People)Elena Spiliotopoulou (Medline, Senior Director HR)

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY?

Many organizations, if not all of them, are spending large amounts of money on the development of their leadership teams. And understandably so. In today's fast-moving world of work, we expect more...

Linnea Bywall (Alva Labs, Head of People)Elena Spiliotopoulou (Medline, Senior Director HR)

CV'S: HIRING HURDLE OR CONVERSATION STARTER?

The relevance or not of CVs has been a topic in the world of work for years. For some, CVs are an outdated tool and a thing of the past, while for others, they remain an important instrument in...

Linnea Bywall (Alva Labs, Head of People)Elena Spiliotopoulou (Medline, Senior Director HR)

ARE WE READY FOR THE PAY TRANSPARENCY ERA?

In an effort to ‘strengthen the principle of equal pay for equal work between men and women through new EU rules on pay transparency’ the European Council has adopted new rules on pay transparency...

Suzanne Lucas (Evil HR Lady, Human Resources Consultant)Virgile Raingeard (Figures, CEO)

2024 WILL MARK THE END OF BS JOBS?

As 2024 is just around the corner, HR trends articles are starting to pop up again. One of the trends identified for next year by the Academy to Innovate HR is the end of BS jobs. This is a term...

Suzanne Lucas (Evil HR Lady, Human Resources Consultant)Virgile Raingeard (Figures, CEO)

DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE: IT'S NOT ABOUT BENEFITS. CASH IS STILL KING FOR EMPLOYEES.

Cash is king is an often-heard and much talked about phrase when we talk about employee compensation. And in an economy that has seen consistently high inflation for almost two years now, a...

Suzanne Lucas (Evil HR Lady, Human Resources Consultant)Virgile Raingeard (Figures, CEO)

MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES: Waste of Time When People Don't Admit They Need Help?

According to Forbes, poor mental health is sky-rocketing with 70% of the C-suite reportedly considering quitting their job to search for a job that better supports their mental health and...

Lothar de Keyne (Bevoy, Co-founder)Carla Serra (Futturwork, Director, HR Consultant)

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SHOULD BE CUSTOMIZABLE. PERIOD.

Employee benefits have been a hot topic over the past years. Companies come up with the most creative benefits to attract candidates and retain their current employees. In a way, one could even go...

Lothar de Keyne (Bevoy, Co-founder)Carla Serra (Futturwork, Director, HR Consultant)

PROVING ROI CRUCIAL FOR HR TRANSFORMATION?

HR technology investments have been growing consistently for the past years. Between 2021 and 2022, for example, business investments in HR tech have risen 57% according to Forbes, with strong...

Lothar de Keyne (Bevoy, Co-founder)Carla Serra (Futturwork, Director, HR Consultant)

HR BUZZWORD FRENZY: HR Need a Course to Navigate the Terms

In 2020, LinkedIn was tracking over 45.000 HRtech & HR Service vendors on its platform. On average, according to the same LinkedIn article, every employer has around 15+ HR tech vendor solutions X...

Erik Haugen (ConnectMyApps, CEO)Nicolas Zavala (BusinessWith, CEO & Co-founder)

FEEDBACK FAIL: Don't Ask for It, Before Teaching People How to Deal with It.

Feedback is a popular word these days and has been for quite some time now. For every process HR teams want to implement, it's recommended to ask employees and stakeholders for feedback where...

Erik Haugen (ConnectMyApps, CEO)Nicolas Zavala (BusinessWith, CEO & Co-founder)

MARKET OUTLOOK: Top Trends & Focus Areas for HR Moving into 2024

Since we had the pleasure of having an all Nordic panel in this episode, namely Nicolas from Sweden and Erik from Norway, we wanted to pick their brain on what there are seeing happen in those 2...

Erik Haugen (ConnectMyApps, CEO)Nicolas Zavala (BusinessWith, CEO & Co-founder)

ONBOARDING: The Make-or-Break for Recruitment Success!

Earlier this year, Fortune reported that 80% of new hires who receive poor onboarding plan to quit, especially if they are remote workers. But it turns out that getting your onboarding right isn't...

Daniela Mertens (HAHN Group, Global Director People & Culture)Dr Dieter Veldsman (AIHR | Academy to Innovate HR, HR Chief Scientist)

HR IMPACT: In 2024, HR finally starts to lean in!

It's not a secret that historically the perceptions that both people in the organization and HR practitioners itself often had of HR haven't always been that great. According to a report by Sage,...

Daniela Mertens (HAHN Group, Global Director People & Culture)Dr Dieter Veldsman (AIHR | Academy to Innovate HR, HR Chief Scientist)

RTO: Forget culture and productivity, it’s all about avoiding a real estate value drop.

Since the start of Covid in 2020, the way many of us work has changed dramatically. While certain people love the fact that they are able to work from the comfort of their homes, others don’t. So...

Paul LaLonde (CEDA, Vice President of People & Culture)Tracie Sponenberg (Tracie Sponenberg LLC, Founder, Chief People Officer)

EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION: Time to say thank you a lot more (and mean it).

According to Miriam Connaughton, Chief People Officer at Simppler, retention will become a bigger priority in 2024 as anxiety about current and future economic conditions continues to linger and...

Paul LaLonde (CEDA, Vice President of People & Culture)Tracie Sponenberg (Tracie Sponenberg LLC, Founder, Chief People Officer)

HR FOR HR: Working in HR in today’s world simply is too much work

Those of us working in HR know that it’s tough. And while it always has been tough, it probably has become even tougher over the past three years starting (of course) when Covid hit. Almost...

Paul LaLonde (CEDA, Vice President of People & Culture)Tracie Sponenberg (Tracie Sponenberg LLC, Founder, Chief People Officer)

4-DAY WORKWEEK: from radical to routine in 2024

Early January, Gartner published their 9 Future of Work Trends for 2024. Among those, there was one prediction in particular that caught my eye. Let me elaborate :-) According to their own...

Alexandre Hernandez (Jobgether, Co-founder)Vanessa Monsequeira (Philips Innovation Services, Sustainability Strategist)

COMPANY CULTURE cannot be maintained in a Remote Work environment

Company culture, also known as organizational culture, refers to the shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours that characterise an organisation and shape how people interact and work...

Alexandre Hernandez (Jobgether, Co-founder)Vanessa Monsequeira (Philips Innovation Services, Sustainability Strategist)

REMOTE WORK is the future; offices are obsolete

According to a 2023 article by Fortune, work from home is stabilizing at around 25% of days - with is five times more than what it was five years ago, in 2019. In a different 2023 article by...

Alexandre Hernandez (Jobgether, Co-founder)Vanessa Monsequeira (Philips Innovation Services, Sustainability Strategist)

UNLIMITED PTO: wellbeing improvement or cause for burnout?

Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) is, as the term suggests, a vacation policy that allows employees to take as much free time as they want as long as it does not interfere with their ability to complete...

Griet Deca (Tryangle, Chief Happiness Officer)Marie Richter (Marie Richter HR Consulting, Fractional Head of HR)

UNBIASED HIRING: veto power for HR over hiring managers

According to an article by HBR, a vast body of research shows that the hiring process is often biased and unfair. Unconscious racism, ageism and sexism play a big role in who gets hired. ...

Griet Deca (Tryangle, Chief Happiness Officer)Marie Richter (Marie Richter HR Consulting, Fractional Head of HR)

BONUSES: missing their mark?

In a previous life, Neelie Verlinden worked for a large investment bank. Once a year, her manager would call her and her team members each in his office to tell them what their bonus would be for...

Griet Deca (Tryangle, Chief Happiness Officer)Marie Richter (Marie Richter HR Consulting, Fractional Head of HR)

ORGANIZATIONS THAT DON'T OFFBOARD WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

Our last debate is inspired by a LinkedIn post by one of today’s guests, namely Alexandre. Here’s what he said: "You know what I’m tired of - companies that don’t think about off-boarding as...

Alexandre Seiler (Chief People Officer, Start Up Advisor)Tim Whitley (Oklahoma State University, Director of HR Technology)

HR SHOULD HAVE MANDATORY ROTATIONS IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS

We cannot even recount how many times we’ve heard the phrase ‘HR need to know the business,’ either from HR practitioners themselves or from people outside the HR field. And it’s something that...

Alexandre Seiler (Chief People Officer, Start Up Advisor)Tim Whitley (Oklahoma State University, Director of HR Technology)

GAMIFICATION HAS NO PLACE IN SERIOUS HR PROCESSES

Gamification is the integration of games or game-like elements into business processes to boost employee participation and engagement. Gamification in HR is often used to: · Streamline the...

Alexandre Seiler (Chief People Officer, Start Up Advisor)Tim Whitley (Oklahoma State University, Director of HR Technology)

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT SURVEYS ARE FLAWED

Employee engagement remains a difficult thing to tackle for a lot of organizations. In their quest for higher engagement levels, and for lack of a better alternative perhaps, many of them turn to...

Barry Flack (BF Consultancy LTD, Fractional HR Executive)Laura Tejada (SkyBounders, People and Scale-up Consultant)

EMPLOYEE MONITORING IS NECESSARY FOR PRODUCTIVITY

Employee monitoring is a growing practice in which companies use digital tools to track work, employee performance, and work in progress. Businesses use different monitoring methods to: ·...

Barry Flack (BF Consultancy LTD, Fractional HR Executive)Laura Tejada (SkyBounders, People and Scale-up Consultant)

DEGREES ARE OVERRATED - SKILLS MATTER MORE IN HIRING

By 2030, it is estimated that 85 million jobs will go unfilled due to a lack of available skills. Skills-based organizations will be best prepared to navigate a reality in which AI increases its...

Barry Flack (BF Consultancy LTD, Fractional HR Executive)Laura Tejada (SkyBounders, People and Scale-up Consultant)

HR TECH REMOVES HUMAN TOUCH FROM WORKPLACE PRACTICES

Virtually every single job today is changing under the influence of technology, including HR. What started with databases and spreadsheets has grown into an entire ecosystem of interconnected...

Sophie Hedestad (NOQX, CEO and Founder)Noah Warder (Accent Inns, VP People and Culture)

PARENTAL PREFERENCE IS REAL: NURSERY RUNS OUTWEIGH YOGA CLASSES

Where there still is a lot of work to be done when it comes to parental leave, there seems to be such a thing as parental preference when people are back to work. Let me elaborate. The inspiration...

Sophie Hedestad (NOQX, CEO and Founder)Noah Warder (Accent Inns, VP People and Culture)

PARENTAL LEAVE IS THE BIGGEST HYPOCRISY IN THE WORKPLACE

A few months ago I was talking about the topic of parental leave with an HR Debatable guest. She mentioned how she’d been in a company where people said things like ‘This candidate is over 40 so she...

Sophie Hedestad (NOQX, CEO and Founder)Noah Warder (Accent Inns, VP People and Culture)

EMPLOYEE WELL-BEING CRUCIAL TO TOTAL REWARDS

Employee well-being has gotten a lot more attention over the past years and rightly so. In 2022, for instance, 87% of Americans felt anxious about inflation and 7 in 10 employees worried that their...

Rachel Gibbs (Merities Consulting, Reward Consultant)Sarah Maximilian (New Pay Collective, Founding Member)

RETHINKING REWARDS: INTERNAL EQUITY VS. MARKET DATA

The inspiration for our second debate comes from a conversation Sarah and Neelie had when they first met to talk about this episode of HR Debatable. Funnily enough, then Rachel also posted something...

Rachel Gibbs (Merities Consulting, Reward Consultant)Sarah Maximilian (New Pay Collective, Founding Member)

PAY SECRECY LEADS TO GREATER TRUST?

The inspiration for our first debate comes from a LinkedIn post that Rachel recently shared: “A 2020 paper co-authored by Dr. Jaclyn Koopman, an assistant professor of management at the Harbert...

Rachel Gibbs (Merities Consulting, Reward Consultant)Sarah Maximilian (New Pay Collective, Founding Member)

THERE'S NO HR FOR HR

The inspiration for our second debate comes from a post our moderator came across on LinkedIn last year by Yagmur D: “There's no HR for HR. Think about it: who does HR go to when they're having an...

Kimberly Burns (humaneer, Co-founder)Careen Redman-Matthews (humaneer, Co-founder)

NO EMPLOYEE ADVOCACY, NO CREDIBLE EMPLOYER BRAND

Employer branding is crucial for talent acquisition, helping organizations define their unique value as an employer and shaping the recruitment efforts to attract ideal candidates. Effective...

Tom Jonkers (on sabbatical, HR Leader)Jasmina Viso (SeeknSpeak, COO)

THE BURNOUT CRISIS IN HR IS CAUSED BY ... HR?

HR practitioners around the world are exhausted. One 2022 study by Workvivo revealed that 98% of HR professionals are burned out. Other data shows that 53% of HR leaders feel overwhelmed and that...

Kimberly Burns (humaneer, Co-founder)Careen Redman-Matthews (humaneer, Co-founder)

EMPLOYER BRANDS OFTEN FAIL TO DIFFERENTIATE

Everyone assumes that having an employer brand will inherently make you stand out, but in reality, every organization sounds the same. In one too many cases, it’s because the branding actually is...

Tom Jonkers (on sabbatical, HR Leader)Jasmina Viso (SeeknSpeak, COO)

AI IS KEY FOR 2024 EMPLOYER BRANDING

In 2024, more companies will integrate AI into their employer branding processes and programs. This will ensure that the target audience gets more accurate and personalized feedback, instead of a...

Tom Jonkers (on sabbatical, HR Leader)Jasmina Viso (SeeknSpeak, COO)

PAY SHOULD REFLECT WORK, NOT LOCATION

The location-based vs. location-agnostic pay debate is nothing new. It has, however, gotten way more attention since 2020 and the massive shift towards hybrid and remote work that we’ve seen since...

Luke O'Mahoney (Sapienˣ, Founder)Kim Rohrer (PeakHR, Co-Founder)

IN PX DESIGN WE NEED TO THINK MVE... NOT MVP

This second debate evolves around People Experience Design, a topic that’s very close to Luke’s heart. A recent post of his on LinkedIn: “I have always had a slight reservation about the phrase...

Luke O'Mahoney (Sapienˣ, Founder)Kim Rohrer (PeakHR, Co-Founder)

THERE'S AN HR EXODUS TAKING PLACE AND NOBODY CARES

The inspiration for this first debate comes from a conversation Neelie had with Kim when they first spoke about her joining for an episode of HR Debatable. They talked about the fact that we seem...

Luke O'Mahoney (Sapienˣ, Founder)Kim Rohrer (PeakHR, Co-Founder)

REMOTE ONBOARDING JUST DOESN'T WORK

According to a 2023 survey by Paychex, 52 % of new remote hires feel devalued after their most recent onboarding experience versus 36 % of onsite employees. And another 63 % of remote employees feel...

Christian Harpelund (Introdus, CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist)Nick V. (Skills for Scale, Founder)

SUCCESSFUL ONBOARDING W/O AI & AUTOMATION IS IMPOSSIBLE

According to a 2022 study from Lina AI, 92 % of HR professionals are familiar with artificial intelligence automation in onboarding processes. An interesting statistic, given the fact that a report...

Christian Harpelund (Introdus, CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist)Nick V. (Skills for Scale, Founder)

ONBOARDING IS THE JOB OF THE HIRING MANAGER, NOT HR

Employee onboarding is yet another example of a key process that is often considered a HR responsibility, but it's during that onboarding period that the foundation of the employee -employer...

Christian Harpelund (Introdus, CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist)Nick V. (Skills for Scale, Founder)