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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: ·...
Laura
Tejada
(
SkyBounders
,
People and Scale-up Consultant
)
Barry
Flack
(
BF Consultancy LTD
,
Fractional HR Executive
)
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...
Laura
Tejada
(
SkyBounders
,
People and Scale-up Consultant
)
Barry
Flack
(
BF Consultancy LTD
,
Fractional HR Executive
)
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...
Sarah
Maximilian
(
New Pay Collective
,
Founding Member
)
Rachel
Gibbs
(
Merities Consulting
,
Reward Consultant
)
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...
Sarah
Maximilian
(
New Pay Collective
,
Founding Member
)
Rachel
Gibbs
(
Merities Consulting
,
Reward Consultant
)
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...
Sarah
Maximilian
(
New Pay Collective
,
Founding Member
)
Rachel
Gibbs
(
Merities Consulting
,
Reward Consultant
)
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...
Careen
Redman-Matthews
(
humaneer
,
Co-founder
)
Kimberly
Burns
(
humaneer
,
Co-founder
)
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...
Careen
Redman-Matthews
(
humaneer
,
Co-founder
)
Kimberly
Burns
(
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...
Jasmina
Viso
(
SeeknSpeak
,
COO
)
Tom
Jonkers
(
on sabbatical
,
HR Leader
)
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...
Careen
Redman-Matthews
(
humaneer
,
Co-founder
)
Kimberly
Burns
(
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...
Jasmina
Viso
(
SeeknSpeak
,
COO
)
Tom
Jonkers
(
on sabbatical
,
HR Leader
)
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...
Jasmina
Viso
(
SeeknSpeak
,
COO
)
Tom
Jonkers
(
on sabbatical
,
HR Leader
)
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...
Kim
Rohrer
(
PeakHR
,
Co-Founder
)
Luke
O'Mahoney
(
Sapienˣ
,
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...
Kim
Rohrer
(
PeakHR
,
Co-Founder
)
Luke
O'Mahoney
(
Sapienˣ
,
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...
Kim
Rohrer
(
PeakHR
,
Co-Founder
)
Luke
O'Mahoney
(
Sapienˣ
,
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...
Nick
V.
(
Skills for Scale
,
Founder
)
Christian
Harpelund
(
Introdus
,
CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist
)
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...
Nick
V.
(
Skills for Scale
,
Founder
)
Christian
Harpelund
(
Introdus
,
CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist
)
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...
Nick
V.
(
Skills for Scale
,
Founder
)
Christian
Harpelund
(
Introdus
,
CEO, Business Psychologist, Onboarding specialist
)
TRADITIONAL L&D CAN'T KEEP UP, FLOW OF WORK CAN
In 2018, Josh Bersin introduced the concept of ‘Learning in the Flow of Work.” Learning in the flow of work means that employees are served training content right when they need it, within their...
Debora
Gallo
(
Mews
,
VP of Talent Development
)
Aleks
Tosovic
(
SThree
,
Head of Learning, Organizational Development & PMO
)
IN 2024, L&D PROVES ROI AND BUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY
Just like there are heaps of article about HR Trends every year, there are also a lot of pieces written about L&D trends. And as we approach the end of the first half of 2024, it's a good time to...
Debora
Gallo
(
Mews
,
VP of Talent Development
)
Aleks
Tosovic
(
SThree
,
Head of Learning, Organizational Development & PMO
)
L&D FALLS FLAT WITHOUT RECOGNITION & REWARDS
The inspiration for this first debate comes from a 2023 article by Worklife. Here’s part of what it said: “An effective learning and development program can be a powerful tool companies can use to...
Debora
Gallo
(
Mews
,
VP of Talent Development
)
Aleks
Tosovic
(
SThree
,
Head of Learning, Organizational Development & PMO
)
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