• 员工体验
    首席人事官展望:重塑工作世界 Chief People Officers Outlook 全球130位首席人事官共同描绘了未来工作的方向:CPO正从管理者转变为战略核心。视频揭示企业正经历从“效率导向”到“重塑组织”的深层变革,AI带来机遇也引发技能退化与伦理风险。未来竞争不在技术,而在人——唯有以人为中心的组织,才能在AI时代保持信任与增长。(download report) 当AI与不确定性交织,企业的核心竞争力正在转移 在AI、全球化和组织重构的浪潮中,企业的焦虑正在发生微妙转变。过去,焦点在“技术能带来多少效率”;如今,真正的问题变成了:“在技术快速推进的时代,组织如何让人不被边缘化?” 世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)最新发布的《首席人事官展望 2025》(Chief People Officers Outlook 2025)报告揭示了一项关键趋势:人力职能正在从执行支持转变为战略中枢,CPO 已成为企业变革的共驱者。这份报告基于对全球 130 多位首席人事官的调研与访谈,呈现了未来工作世界的深层逻辑。 一、人力职能的战略跃迁:CPO 正走上企业的“驾驶席” 长期以来,企业往往把人力资源视为后台支持部门——招聘、薪酬、绩效考核。但如今,这个模式正在被彻底颠覆。 报告显示,超过九成的 CPO 认为人力职能已成为企业价值创造的战略驱动力。他们不再只是“执行人事政策”的管理者,而是与CEO并肩制定组织方向的战略合伙人。 “你再也无法将人与业务分开了。”——一位受访 CPO 的话成为报告的核心引语。 这种转变背后,是企业在动荡环境中寻求“人驱动的韧性”。从欧洲制造业到北美科技公司,CPO 开始直接参与组织重塑、业务模式转型与AI治理决策。在中国市场,这一趋势同样显现:无论是华为、字节跳动这样的科技巨头,还是制造业出海企业,都在让 HR 战略与业务战略同步规划。 二、谨慎中的加速:企业同时“踩刹车”和“踩油门” 报告揭示一个耐人寻味的矛盾:42% 的 CPO 预计未来一年劳动力市场将保持稳定,32% 认为会走弱,但多数企业却在加速内部转型。 这种“表面保守、实质重构”的现象,正在成为全球趋势。在美国,部分大型企业暂停外部招聘,却投入资源重塑岗位结构;在欧洲,不少集团通过人才再培训(reskilling)计划优化内部流动。中国的头部企业同样出现类似动作——“谨慎招聘+内部提效”成为2025年主流策略。 “谨慎是当前的环境设定,但转型是长期的机会。”——报告总结。 这说明企业正进入一个“战略蓄能期”:放慢扩张脚步,不是退缩,而是为了未来十年的结构性重构做准备。 三、年轻一代的挑战:他们不只是员工,而是“价值选择者” 报告指出,新一代员工正以前所未有的主动性进入职场。他们追求的已不再是稳定与薪酬,而是灵活性、意义感与价值契合。 “今天的人才自信、信息灵通,并且理直气壮地进行选择。”——报告中一位 CPO 的评论精准描述了这一代职场人的心态。 然而,这种觉醒也带来管理新矛盾。在北美,年轻员工因企业文化不符而主动离职的比例创历史新高;在中国,Z世代对“加班文化”与“管理层信任度”的敏感度远高于前辈。CPO 面临的新任务,不再是“招聘到人”,而是在多元文化与价值观冲突中重建组织共识。 这意味着HR策略必须向更“个体化”的方向演进:更多定制化成长路径、更灵活的绩效反馈机制,以及真正以员工体验为核心的文化体系。 四、AI的双刃:提升效率的同时,正在侵蚀人的能力 当AI渗透到招聘、绩效、培训的各个环节,CPO们的态度并非盲目乐观。报告显示,CPO 最担心的并不是“被AI取代”,而是“人因AI而失去成长能力”。 他们列出的三大风险值得所有HR关注: 员工无法及时学习新技能,无法跟上技术变革; 过度依赖AI导致技能退化、职业停滞; 数据隐私与算法伦理问题日益突出。 这让AI治理成为HR领域的新议题。欧美大型企业已经开始设立“AI使用守则”,强调人机协同边界;中国也有企业在推行“人本AI”理念——技术赋能,而非取代。 “成功的劳动力AI整合,不仅取决于技术部署,更取决于对工作的刻意重新设计与以人为本的实施承诺。”——报告原文。 未来的CPO,不仅要懂人,更要懂AI——懂得如何让技术成为释放潜能的工具,而非削弱人的拐杖。 五、重构组织,而非修补流程 在所有受访CPO列出的未来优先事项中,排名第一的并非招聘、薪酬或福利,而是——“重新设计组织结构与岗位”。53%的CPO将此列为头号任务。 这项数据揭示了一个本质趋势:组织变革已成为企业生存的必要工程。在全球范围内,企业正从层级制向网络化、敏捷化组织演进;岗位设计也从“职责导向”走向“能力导向”。例如,欧洲的能源企业正在用跨职能团队取代传统部门架构;中国的互联网公司则开始推行“灵活项目制”与“内部创业机制”。 这些调整的背后,是企业在应对不确定性时的共识: 组织的韧性,比组织的规模更重要。 未来竞争,不是技术之战,而是人之战 从世界经济论坛的这份报告可以看到一个清晰的趋势:技术的浪潮终将平衡,但“人”的力量正在重新定义竞争力。 CPO 的崛起象征着企业治理重心的变化——从流程管理转向价值共创,从效率导向转向人本驱动。在跨国企业与出海中企的实践中,这种转变已经显现:懂组织、懂人、懂科技的HR领导者,正在成为下一代企业的关键变量。 当AI继续重塑世界,我们或许应该问: 未来的企业,究竟是更高效的机器,还是更有灵魂的组织?
    员工体验
    2025年11月09日
  • 员工体验
    颠覆认知:全球劳动力报告揭示的5个反直觉趋势 当今的商业领袖和人力资源专家正面临一个前所未有的挑战:如何在全球范围内高效、合规地管理日益分散的团队?随着全球化团队的兴起,管理的复杂性呈指数级增长,旧有的模式正在失效。我们似乎都认为,更大的人力资源团队、更多的工具和更严格的控制是唯一的出路。 然而,Remote发布的《2025年全球劳动力报告》揭示了一些关于人力资源、技术和全球招聘的惊人真相,其中许多发现甚至与我们的直觉背道而驰。这份报告基于对10个国家的3,650名人力资源和商业领袖的调研,为我们描绘了一幅截然不同的未来工作图景。 本文将为您提炼出其中最关键的五个发现。准备好,这些洞察可能会彻底改变你对未来工作的看法,并为你的组织战略提供新的方向。 1. “精简人力资源”并非资源不足,而是一种新式超能力 传统观念认为,管理庞大的全球员工队伍需要一个同样庞大的人力资源部门。但数据显示,事实恰恰相反。小型人力资源团队(即使只有1-3人)在员工体验和留任率等关键指标上的表现,与大型团队相当,甚至更好。这并非偶然。 报告中的一个关键数据显示,**87%**的受访公司的人力资源或招聘团队规模不超过九人。这些精简的团队之所以能爆发出惊人的能量,其背后的秘密在于技术。他们正通过采用集成式全球人力资源平台、人工智能和自动化等创新工具,巧妙地实现了“以少胜多”。这些技术使他们能够轻松处理跨国薪酬、合规和员工体验等复杂事务,从而在全球舞台上产生巨大的影响力。 “随着公司在全球范围内的扩张,员工的敬业度和留任率不能靠运气。数据显示,业务表现与我们在增长过程中为员工提供支持的程度直接相关。那些无论在哪个地区都优先考虑文化和发展一致性的人力资源领导者,将能保持发展势能并留住顶尖人才。” Barbara Matthews Chief People Officer at Remote 2. 全球人才库已非备选项,而是默认配置 在过去,国际招聘通常被视为一种补充策略。然而,如今的格局已发生根本性转变:全球招聘已迅速成为企业获取人才的默认选项。 这一转变的规模是惊人的。报告预测,到2026年,**73%**的领导者预计其超过一半的新员工将来自公司的主要国家之外。这一趋势背后的主要驱动力是本地人才的稀缺——74%65%29%。然而,即使是较为谨慎的市场也显示出加速的迹象,法国计划中的国际招聘比例将在未来数月从29%上升至38%。 3. 人人都对全球合规充满信心——然而几乎人人都曾失败 在处理复杂的国际劳动法规时,信心是必不可少的,但过度的自信却可能是危险的。报告揭示了一个惊人的“信心差距”:一方面,高达**98%**的领导者对自己了解运营国家的法规充满信心。 但另一方面,现实却给了他们沉重一击:74%42,000美元,而其中31%50,000美元。这种信心与现实的巨大鸿沟,代表着全球扩张中最大的未管理财务风险之一,它将合规从一个法律复选框转变为财务规划的关键组成部分。 4. 人力资源领域的AI革命已至,但现实既混乱又棘手 人工智能无疑是人力资源领域最具变革潜力的技术。数据显示,**75%**的人力资源领导者预计,到2026年底,人工智能将处理超过一半的日常行政任务。这预示着一个更高效、更具战略性的未来。 然而,通往未来的道路并非一帆风顺。当前的现实是一场快速而混乱的实验:在过去一年里,28%停止使用某个人工智能招聘工具,但几乎同等数量(27%)的团队则开始使用一款新的人工智能工具。与此同时,**21%**的团队发现了由人工智能生成且包含误导性或虚假信息的简历。这一系列数据表明,真正的机会不在于零散地采纳各种AI工具,而在于建立一个整合的、治理良好的智能平台。 5. 你的人力资源团队讨厌他们的软件(并且正积极寻求替代品) 认为人力资源团队正在与他们的技术栈作斗争,这并非凭空猜测,而是一个可量化的行业现实。报告明确指出,“工具泛滥”问题已让人力资源团队不堪重负。这种现象普遍存在,超过80%的人力资源团队需要同时操作2到5个独立的系统来管理核心职能。平均而言,每支团队需要使用3.6个工具,而**32%**的领导者认为“过多孤立的工具”是他们技术栈面临的首要挑战。 这种挫败感已经达到了临界点。一个最具说服力的数据是:**近九成(nearly 9/10)**的人力资源领导者表示,如果能获得一个集成了全球薪酬和合规功能的一体化平台,他们愿意立即替换掉现有的核心人力资源信息系统(HRIS)。这种对整合平台的压倒性需求,不仅仅是为了追求用户便利,它更是实现“精简人力资源”模式的根本推动力,使得小型团队能够在不按比例增加人手的情况下实现全球化运营。 结论:面向未来的思考 《2025年全球劳动力报告》清晰地描绘了一种新的运营现实:精简且依赖技术的人力资源团队,肩负着驾驭全球人才的重任,而这项使命正不断受到复杂法规、混乱的人工智能应用以及碎片化软件格局的考验。人力资源部门正从传统的行政角色,演变为技术驱动的战略推动者,但这一转变过程伴随着巨大的压力和前所未有的复杂性。 随着这些趋势的不断加速,真正的问题不再是你的组织是否会适应,而是能否足够快地适应。你的团队为这个新现实做好准备了吗?
    员工体验
    2025年11月06日
  • 员工体验
    OpenAI 推出“ChatGPT for HR”实用场景指南,助力人力资源团队全面提效 近日,OpenAI Academy 在其官方平台发布了《ChatGPT for HR》专题资源,系统展示了 ChatGPT 在人力资源(HR)工作中的实际应用场景与 Prompt 模板,覆盖员工全生命周期管理,从招聘、入职、绩效,到调查、沟通与合规研究等多个环节。该资源旨在帮助全球 HR 团队利用生成式 AI 提升工作效率、洞察深度与沟通一致性。 根据 OpenAI 官方介绍,本次公开的 HR 应用案例分为多个板块,涵盖 政策与沟通撰写、人才获取与面试设计、员工参与与反馈分析、绩效与发展管理、合规与多元平等(DEI)规划 等关键领域。每个场景均附有可直接复制的 ChatGPT Prompt,方便 HR 专业人士快速落地使用。 例如,在内部沟通与政策制定方面,ChatGPT 可以帮助起草员工手册摘要、政策公告、常见问答及内部培训脚本;在招聘与入职环节,HR 可通过 Prompt 生成职位说明、行为面试题、入职计划表等内容;在员工调查与反馈分析中,ChatGPT 能对离职问卷、满意度调查、开放式回答进行语义分析,提炼主题与趋势,为管理层提供决策依据;而在合规与组织研究部分,系统还可协助分析全球法规差异、撰写合规报告,支持 HRBP 的战略研究工作。 业内专家认为,这份资源的最大价值在于其“可操作性”与“模板化”。不同于以往泛泛而谈的 AI 概念介绍,《ChatGPT for HR》提供的内容更像是一套可直接落地的工作工具,帮助 HR 团队将生成式 AI 技术真正嵌入日常流程。 目前,该资源已在 OpenAI Academy 网站公开上线(academy.openai.com/public/clubs/work-users-ynjqu/resources/use-cases-hr),无需额外注册即可浏览。这也是 OpenAI 在企业应用方向上进一步细化行业场景的重要一步,尤其在人力资源领域,为全球 HR 从业者提供了可复制、可扩展的 AI 实践框架。 HRTech 观察认为:AI 已经不再只是“辅助工具”,而正在成为 HR 专业能力的加速引擎。通过标准化的 Prompt 与结构化思维框架,HR 可以在更短时间内完成高质量内容生成与数据洞察,从而将更多精力投入到战略与人本决策之中。 ?原文参考:OpenAI Academy: ChatGPT for HR Use Cases
    员工体验
    2025年10月15日
  • 员工体验
    The best HR & People Analytics articles of July 2025 HR如何在AI时代掌握主动?David Green发布的7月《Data Driven HR Monthly》汇集全球顶尖报告与实践,聚焦“技能+任务”新范式、AI对员工体验与倦怠的双面影响,以及CHRO在企业AI战略中的领导地位。BCG数据显示,印度AI使用率达92%,但全球员工对AI培训满意度仅36%。Upwork报告揭示:高效AI用户更易疲惫离职。McKinsey与Gartner呼吁HR重构组织模型与人才规划体系。本期还探讨神经多元、NASA人才图谱与“Vibe Coding”等创新实践。 I always enjoy spending time in India, so I was delighted to arrive in Delhi yesterday ahead of People Matters Tech HR later this week. I’ll be delivering the opening keynote on how HR leaders can ace the next curve of change as well as leading a workshop on the science of better decisions. I’m looking forward to catching up with fellow speakers such as Jason Averbook (tip: subscribe to his Now to Next blog, if you don’t already), Pushkaraj Bidwai, Mukesh Jain, and Shefali Raias well as immersing myself in what is happening in the Indian HR tech scene. In this month’s edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, which comes against the backdrop of CEOs flexing on the impact of AI on jobs, I’ve included new research from BCG and Upwork on AI at work, and the role of HR. Marc Effron is spot on here with his assessment that CHROs need to be leading the strategic conversation with the executive team on their desire to reduce costs through job reduction enabled by AI: “CHROs can lead this conversation through organization, operating model and job design, where we should be experts.” I expect plenty of discussion at Tech HR on this topic as well as the wider impact of AI on work, the workforce, and the workplace. One of the messages, I’ll look to get across in my keynote is: AI guides, but humans decide. We must prioritise the ‘H’ in HR. This edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly is sponsored by our friends at TechWolf Skills, Tasks, and Workforce Intelligence: Navigating the AI Transformation This month’s edition highlights an important conversation from the TechWolf Podcast, recorded live in New York, featuring Marc Steven Ramos, global learning leader with 25+ years’ global transformation experience with Google, Microsoft, Accenture, Novartis, Oracle, and Cornerstone, and Jeroen Van Hautte ?, CTO & Co-Founder of TechWolf. The discussion explores how task-based intelligence complements skills data to create a complete view of workforce capabilities, empowering organizations to navigate one of the largest business transformations in history: the AI-driven redefinition of work. Skills without context can be ambiguous. Tasks ground them in real work, and that’s where change, productivity, and AI come together — Marc Ramos Why This Matters Now: The pace of change in the workforce is unprecedented. Leading enterprises are already recognizing that workforce intelligence - the ability to understand, predict, and act on how work is changing in real time - is no longer optional. From skills to skills + tasks + jobs: Combining these data points allows organizations to connect individual capabilities to tangible outputs and outcomes. AI as a catalyst: AI is accelerating job evolution, making real-time visibility into tasks and skills essential for workforce planning and redeployment. Strategic urgency for boards: Workforce automation isn’t a distant trend — it is reshaping workforces today, creating pressure on executives to act on reskilling, redeployment, and workforce design at speed. To really understand a skill, you need to understand the context in which it’s applied — the tasks. And that’s where AI can add transformative clarity — Jeroen Van Hautte For HR leaders, this is an opportunity to lead. With skills and tasks as the foundation, HR is uniquely positioned to drive cultural alignment, manage change, and deliver on the board-level mandate to prepare workforces for the AI era. Listen to the Episode: ?️ Marc Ramos & Jeroen Van Hautte on Tasks, Skills & the Future of Work (TechWolf website summary) To sponsor an edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, and share your brand with more than 145,000 Data Driven HR Monthly subscribers, send an email to dgreen@zandel.org. JULY ROAD REPORT Until flying to Delhi yesterday, as mentioned above for Tech HR India later this week, July had been a light month of travel other than a short trip to Switzerland to run an AI workshop with the HR leadership team of one of the companies that are part of the Insight222 People Analytics Program. For those interested, one of my speaking engagements from earlier this year, at the Wharton People Analytics Conference, is now available to view (see below). In the talk, I explore the critical role of data democratisation and adoption in driving workforce insights, enhancing decision-making, and scaling HR’s strategic impact. I also share best practices from our work and research at Insight222 for making people analytics accessible to leaders and employees alike, the challenges of adoption, and the key investments required to unlock the full potential of workforce data. Enjoy! Share the love! Enjoy reading the collection of resources for July and, if you do, please share some data driven HR love with your colleagues and networks. Thanks to the many of you who liked, shared and/or commented on June’s compendium. If you enjoy a weekly dose of curated learning (and the Digital HR Leaders podcast), the Insight222 newsletter: Digital HR Leaders newsletter is usually published every other Tuesday – subscribe here – and read the latest edition. HYBRID, GENERATIVE AI AND THE FUTURE OF WORK BCG - AI at Work: Momentum Builds, but Gaps Remain | JOHN BRAZIER AND NICK SOUTH - BCG’s AI at Work 2025 report: Four takeaways for HR leaders Companies are realizing that merely introducing AI tools into existing ways of working isn’t enough to unlock their full potential. The real magic happens—and value generated —when businesses go further and reshape their workflows end-to-end. BCG’s annual AI at work global survey of employees is packed full of insights and guidance for business and HR leaders looking to maximise value, adoption and employee experience with AI. The key takeaways include: (1) AI is now part of our daily work lives: 72% of respondents are regular AI users (although adoption amongst frontline employees has stalled at 51%). (2) Investment in training, leadership support and access to the right tools can break this ceiling: Yet only 36% of employees are satisfied with their AI training. (3) The Global South is showing higher adoption of AI. India leads the pack with 92% of regular users compared to the US (64%), UK (68%) and Japan (51%). (4) The next frontier: from adoption to value with end-to-end redesign. One-half of respondents say their company is starting to reshape processes. These companies also invest more in their people – and it pays off (see FIG 1). (5) AI agents are not widely deployed. Only 13% see agents integrated into broader workflows (see FIG 2). Kudos to the authors: Vinciane Beauchene, Sylvain Duranton, Nipun Kalra, and David Martin. For HR leaders, I also recommend reading John Brazier’s interview with BCG’s Nick South about the implications of the report’s findings for HR on the UNLEASH blog. FIG 1: The relationship between workflow redesign due to AI and investment in people (Source: BCG) FIG 2: Use of AI agents (Source: BCG) GABBY BURLACU AND KELLY MONAHAN - From Tools to Teammates: Navigating the New Human-AI Relationship Full time employees getting the most done with AI are also the most burned out, disengaged, and disconnected from their teams. In their study for the Upwork Research Institute, Gabriela (Gabby) Burlacu and Kelly Monahan, Ph.D. identify a crucial message for the future of work: while AI is undeniably boosting productivity – with a reported 40% jump for many workers – it's also creating a human paradox. Alarmingly, top AI performers are experiencing high burnout (88%) and are twice as likely to leave, often feeling disconnected from strategy and even trusting AI more than human colleagues (see FIG 3 and 4). The report offers three urgent calls to action for business leaders: (1) Redesign work for human-centered, AI-empowered talent and workflows, prioritising autonomy, trust and psychological safety. (2) Cultivate flexible and resilient talent ecosystems, combining full-time employees, freelancers, and AI capabilities to create agile, resilient, and high-performing teams. (3) Redefine AI strategies to focus on the end-to-end human experience, including new roles, norms, and governance. For HR leaders, these findings are a wake-up call. We must prioritise the relational side of AI, ensuring human connection, well-being, and purpose are augmented, not eroded. It's about preventing burnout in our most productive AI users, fostering alignment, and learning from agile models like freelancers to build a truly sustainable human-AI collaborative future. FIG 3: The human cost of AI productivity (Source: The Upwork Research Institute) FIG 4: The rise of human-like relationships with AI (Source: The Upwork Research Institute) COBUS GREYLING - Do AI Agents Substitute Human Workers — Or Enable Humans To Succeed In New Ways? | L. ELISA CELIS, LINGXIAO HUANG, AND NISHEETH K. VISHNOI - A Mathematical Framework for AI-Human Integration in Work AI Agents are good at tasks not jobs… In his article, Cobus Greyling provides an insightful and accessible analysis of a new study by Elisa Celis, Lingxiao Huang, and Nisheeth Vishnoi, which presents a mathematical framework that models jobs, workers, and worker-job fit, and introduces a novel decomposition of skills into decision-level and action-level subskills to reflect the complementary strengths of humans and GenAI. Greyling’s incisive analysis offers a helpful perspective for HR leaders navigating the future of work. His core message is clear: AI agents are fantastic at tasks, not entire jobs. They're not just substitutes, but powerful amplifiers of human capability, especially for less experienced workers, effectively compressing productivity gaps and fostering extraordinary collaboration. Here are four key learnings for HR: (1) Agentic AI Augments Human Potential: AI agents boost efficiency and performance, particularly for junior talent, by handling structured tasks and freeing humans for higher-order work. (2) Redefine Skills & Development: While AI takes on the mundane, HR must strategically ensure continuous skill development, focusing on uniquely human capabilities like judgment, creativity, and complex problem-solving. (3) Design for Human-AI Synergy: Organisational design must pivot to foster premium collaborations between humans and AI. It's about combining complementary strengths to achieve outcomes greater than the sum of the parts. (4) HR Leads Strategic Integration: Our role in HR is pivotal. We must orchestrate the strategic integration of agentic AI, balancing its efficiency gains with the imperative to preserve and nurture human ingenuity, driving both innovation and connection. FIG 5: Al for work: skill difficulty continuum (Source: Cobus Greyling) PEOPLE ANALYTICS KETAKI SODHI AND COLE NAPPER - Who Needs a “Human in the Loop” When AI Gives Itself Feedback Ketaki Sodhi, PhD, Program Owner for Agentic Listening and Analytics at Microsoft, and Cole Napper provide a fascinating perspective on the "human in the loop" concept for Generative AI, provocatively asking: which human, and how? This isn't just a technical question; it's where I/O Psychology and People Analytics come into their own. The article frames AI "evals"— the systems for assessing whether AI outputs are useful, accurate or aligned —as essentially performance management for Large Language Models. Just as we've wrestled with defining "good" in complex human knowledge work for decades, we now face the same challenge in building AI systems. In a world of infinite " " answers, AI evals demand the same nuance we apply to human systems: competency models, multi-rater input, calibration, and context. One of the key takeaways from Ketaki and Cole is that true success lies not in chasing perfect answers from AI, but in designing smart, human-informed systems. These are the systems that can discern between good, better, and what genuinely drives impact for your organisation. For people analytics leaders and I/O psychologists, this is a clarion call to leverage their deep expertise in human performance to shape the very fabric of our AI-driven future. FIG 6: Source – Ketaki Sodhi BEN BERRY - The future is built by everyone: What is Vibe Coding and why should People Analytics teams adopt it | ROSARIO GERMINO - From People Analytics to People Economics and Impact | ADRIAN PEREZ – GitLab People Analytics Team Handbook | DOMINIK TOMICEVIC - Can NASA’s People Graph and LLMs Revolutionize Workforce Planning? | MORGAN DEPENBUSCH - How to let color do the storytelling In each edition of the Data Driven HR Monthly, I feature a collection of articles by current and recent people analytics leaders. These are intended to act as a spur and inspiration to the field. Five are highlighted in this month’s edition: (1) In a particularly insightful piece, Ben Berry examines whether vibe coding, a product management practice of using AI tools to rapidly build functional prototypes to help turn rough ideas into working concepts, should be adopted in people analytics. (2) In her thoughtful article, Rosario Germino argues that to elevate people decisions to the same level of strategic investment as product or finance, we need a new way of thinking—and a new kind of function – People Economics and Impact, which she then breaks down into the why (see FIG 7 on the multi-dimensional aspect of informed decision making), what and how. (3) In a recent post, Adrian M. Pérez provides open source access to GitHub’s People Analytics Team Handbook, a rich resources covering areas such as (i) data governance framework, (ii) tools and methodologies, (iii) survey administration, and (iv) Tableau dashboard strategies. (4) Dominik Tomicevic provides a compelling account of how NASA’s People Graph is supporting a range of priorities from upskilling to workforce planning – with insights from the NASA team of David Meza, Madison Ostermann and Katharine Knott, MBA: “Knowledge graphs offer flexibility, since you don’t need a full schema upfront. We began with known relationships and expanded as we uncovered more insights in the data.” (5) In an edition of her excellent Trending Up newsletter, Morgan Depenbusch, PhD offers some compelling guidance on the use of colour in data visualisation and storytelling. FIG 7: Informed decisions are multi-dimensional. Financial logic makes them investable (Source: Rosario Germino) THE EVOLUTION OF HR, LEARNING, AND DATA DRIVEN CULTURE MCKINSEY - HR Monitor 2025 The gap is widening between what is needed from an efficient, effective HR function and what most organizations currently offer McKinsey's HR Monitor 2025 benchmark study of workforce and HR trends across Europe, delivers a sharp analysis of the critical shifts shaping the HR profession, emphasising that the next 12-24 months are decisive for the function. The report identifies five key trends: (1) Workforce planning is not approached strategically enough – see FIG 8 - (“…with rapid changes driven by gen AI and shifting skill needs, workforce planning must move beyond short-term staffing forecasts to include a longer-term view and future-scenario planning”). (2) Talent acquisition is becoming more complex: with only 56% offer acceptance rates, 18% of new hires leaving during their probationary period and the overall hiring success rate in Europe standing at a lowly 46%, a more strategic and coordinated approach to attracting and hiring talent is required. (3) Employee development continues to be highly fragmented (“To prepare the workforce for future challenges, organizations must connect performance management, learning and development, and talent development in one cohesive strategy”). (4) Employee experience is essential—and underdeveloped (“A more tailored, data-driven approach to the employee experience is needed to build motivation and long-term commitment to employers”). (5) Gen AI and shared-services centres could boost efficiency and effectiveness (“HR departments must modernize their operating models by expanding SSC adoption and using automation and gen AI to increase speed, scalability, and strategic impact”). For Chief People Officers, the message is clear: You must align HR strategy directly with business priorities, strengthen your HR operating model, and aggressively build digital and AI skills within HR. This is about laying the foundation for a modern, AI-enabled HR function that is both deeply people-centric and laser-focused on organizational performance. Kudos to the authors: Julian Kirchherr, Vincent Bérubé, Charlotte Seiler, Dr. Kira Alexandra Rupietta, Kristina Stoerk, Nina-Marlene Senst, and Simon Gallot Lavallée. ...with rapid changes driven by gen AI and shifting skill needs, workforce planning must move beyond short-term staffing forecasts to include a longer-term view and future-scenario planning FIG 8: Engagement in workforce planning (Source: McKinsey) FIG 9: Predicted impact of gen AI on HR department (Source: McKinsey) ESER RIZAOGLU AND STEPHANIE CLEMENT - How CHROs Can Prepare Their Function and the Enterprise for AI Transformation CHROs play a key role in safely using AI at scale to deliver business outcomes. Recent research by Eser Rizaoglu and Stephanie Clement for Gartner provides a helpful roadmap for CHROs steering their organisations through AI transformation, by focusing on HR's pivotal role in shaping the future of work. The report highlights three key actions for CHROs to enable their organisation's AI approach: (1) Assist in delivering business outcomes using AI: Leverage GenAI for HR productivity first, then expand to drive enterprise-wide improvements with a broader AI portfolio. (2) Manage behavioural outcomes of AI: Cultivate a culture of innovation, build human-centred change management plans, and introduce new HR roles to foster human-machine partnerships. (3) Enable workforce readiness for AI: Implement AI literacy programs for all (see FIG 10), while targeting upskilling efforts on segments most impacted, building empathy, and tracking readiness indicators. For CHROs in Steady-AI-Pace organisations, the focus is on foundational AI literacy and policy. Those at an Accelerated-AI-Pace must deepen this by targeting high-impact workforce segments and deploying AI champions to drive effective, human-centric change. FIG 10: AI Literacy Program Roadmap (Source: Gartner) DAVE ULRICH - Navigating Eight Paradoxes of AI for HR When algorithms combine with human empathy, judgement, and creativity, sustained progress occurs. In his article, Dave Ulrich highlights eight paradoxes on the AI for HR agenda that he believes business and HR leaders need to navigate to move up the s-curve and waves of HR impact (see FIG 11) to deliver more value. As Dave explains: “Navigating (not just managing) paradox means highlighting and working through opposing ideas—each of which is valid—that combine to create more value.” The eight paradoxes identified in the article are: (1) AI and AI: Artificial Intelligence * Authentic Intimacy. (2) Remove jobs and redefine work. (3) Bottom line efficiency and top line growth. (4) Distribute and concentrate power. (5) Lower and increase risk. (6) Expand perspective and reduce cognition. (7) Provide answers and explore questions. (8) Isolate and connect. FIG 11: Five stages of AI for HR evolution (Source: Dave Ulrich) EMPLOYEE LISTENING, EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE, AND EMPLOYEE WELLBEING JARED WEINTRAUB - A day in the life of a GenAI-enabled workforce Deloitte forecasts that 25 percent of companies currently using GenAI will launch agentic pilots this year, rising to 50 percent by 2027 Jared Weintraub, PhD, SPHR's article for Deloitte paints a tantalising picture of a 'Gen-AI enabled workforce,' showcasing how AI agents are already transforming our daily work. Through a fictional Fortune500 company, Jared brings to life three key personas: (1) New Hire (Riley): Experiences personalised onboarding, with AI agents helping her navigate culture and quickly excel in her role. (2) VP (Taylor): Sees optimised leadership workflows, receiving instant summaries, personalised action items, and even real-time feedback on calls. (3) CEO (Angelina): Gains powerful support for strategic decision-making, with AI agents providing real-time insights and even coaching for high-stakes events like public town halls. These examples demonstrate AI's profound potential not to replace workers, but to fundamentally enhance human potential, leading to a significantly improved employee experience where individuals, teams, and organisations can thrive and perform at their absolute best. Thanks to Brian Heger for highlighting in his excellent Talent Edge Weekly. WORKFORCE PLANNING, ORG DESIGN, AND SKILLS-BASED ORGANISATIONS SCOTT REIDA AND KRISTIN SABOE - Applying the Rule of 72 to Workforce Skill Obsolescence and Productivity Degradation Amazon's Scott Reida and Google's Kristin Saboe, Ph.D. introduce a powerful financial concept to HR: the "Rule of 72." Traditionally, it's a shortcut to estimate how long an investment takes to double, by dividing 72 by its annual growth rate. They ingeniously flip this, applying it to skill evolution: by dividing 72 by a role's weighted average 3-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of its skills, one estimates the "years to obsolescence" if no upskilling occurs. This provides critical directional clarity on how fast job competencies are shifting. Their framework, illustrated in FIG 12, categorises skills into four key zones: (1) Emerging (low adoption, high growth, representing the cutting edge). (2) Table Stakes (widely adopted, foundational must-haves with steady growth). (3) On the Cusp (moderate adoption, sustained expansion, offering long-term value). (4) Sunset (declining demand, requiring intentional upskilling). This enables smarter workforce planning. HR can now target training budgets where skill erosion is rapid, shifting from reactive to proactive strategies. It transforms talent into a dynamic portfolio , informing sharper hiring and career development in our accelerating world. FIG 12: Categorising skills into four key zones (Source – Scott Reida and Kristin Saboe) McKINSEY - The new rules for getting your operating model redesign right When people feel invested in and supported, they are more likely to embrace change, contribute meaningfully, and sustain the behaviors that drive long-term impact. New research from McKinsey updating their nine golden rules for operating model redesign, which finds that five original (evergreen) rules have stood the test of time while four new (evolved) rules have emerged (see FIG 13). The study identifies a key finding: redesign success jumps from 59 percent when using all nine original rules to 97 percent when using all nine in the refreshed set. The article also presents four broad redesign themes for leaders to focus on: (1) Create alignment among leaders and decision-makers, grounded in strategy. (2) Invest deeply in rewiring workflows. (3) Make significant investments in people. (4) Create a performance-oriented culture for durable impact. For Chief People Officers, the key takeaway is that they need to become the architects of dynamic, human-centric operating models. Their focus shifts from traditional talent management to proactively designing how work gets done, emphasising skills and capabilities over static roles. CPOs should also lead on ethical AI integration, foster a culture of continuous learning, and empower leaders. This creates a workforce built for perpetual reinvention, driving sustained value in an increasingly uncertain world. Kudos to the authors: Brooke Weddle, J.R. Maxwell, Tristan Allen, Deepak Mahadevan, Elizabeth Mygatt, and Olli Salo. FIG 13: The refreshed golden rules of organisational redesign (Source: McKinsey) LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, AND LEARNING JEFF WETZLER - The Right Way to Prepare for a High-Stakes Conversation Curiosity increases your ability to process new information and respond creatively to complex problems. It activates the brain’s learning and reward centers, increasing your capacity for insight and creative problem-solving. In his recent HBR article, Jeff Wetzler introduces a helpful concept for leaders: The Curiosity Check (see FIG 14). This diagnostic is designed to fundamentally shift your mindset from defensive certainty to productive curiosity, and so improve your effectiveness in high-stakes discussions and boost your influence. It’s all about unlocking crucial, often hidden, insights. Wetzler outlines three actionable steps: (1) Choose Curiosity Over Certainty: Actively ask yourself "What am I missing?" challenging your assumptions. (2) Make It Safe to Speak Up: Create an environment where people feel secure sharing their true thoughts, proving safety through action, not just words. (3) Pose Quality Questions: Shift from shallow or leading questions to open-ended, neutral, and deeper inquiries that encourage genuine reflection. Wetzler brings this to life with examples, highlighting how leaders often miss critical information when they assume team alignment, never probing for the "unspoken thoughts" that hold the real insights. This approach empowers you to tap into wisdom you might otherwise completely overlook. Thanks to Amy Edmondson for highlighting. FIG 14: The Curiosity Curve (Source: Jeff Wetzler) MCKINSEY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LEARNING LAB – Reimagined: Development for the Future of Work – Evolving Trends in L&D Article | Full report Leaders must prepare for a future defined by radical candor regarding the impacts of AI on work and the workforce. The 2025 McKinsey Learning Perspective spotlights three interconnected themes crucial for people development in a rapidly changing world: (1) Fluid Development Ecosystems: Organisations must design work to be inherently developmental, shifting from rigid structures to dynamic, data-driven ecosystems. This means de-siloing HR functions and embedding learning into daily work, making growth continuous and seamless. The goal is to make daily challenges catalysts for growth, supported by real-time data and foresight. (2) Responsible AI Adoption: This defining moment demands leaders preserve employee trust by showing AI will help them thrive, not just automate work. It's about fostering powerful human-AI collaboration, offloading repetitive tasks to AI to unlock human creativity and higher-order skills. Responsible adoption hinges on equipping employees with uniquely human capabilities like critical thinking and judgment. (3) Resilient and Adaptable Individuals and Organisations: Thriving organisations anticipate challenges, adapt, and grow, building structural and cultural foundations for resilience. This involves unlocking the potential of diverse, multigenerational workforces, supporting recuperation to prevent burnout, and enabling organisational resilience through sustainable workflows. It means seeing resilience as a shared, cultivated capability, not just an individual trait. Read the article by Heather Stefanski, Benjamin Hall, Jake Gittleson, and Jessica Glazer, and then dive into the full report, which also includes contributions from the likes of Sandra Durth. DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING ROBERT D. AUSTIN, NEIL BARNETT, CHLOE R. CAMERON, HIREN SHUKLA, THORKIL SONNE, AND JOSE VELASCO - How Neuroinclusion Builds Organizational Capabilities Leaders should consider neuro-inclusion as a strategic capability-building opportunity rather than a diversity initiative In a rapidly evolving world, neuro-inclusion is emerging as a critical organisational capability, as highlighted by Robert Austin, Neil Barnett, Chloe Cameron, Hiren Shukla, Thorkil Sonne, and Jose Velasco in the MIT Sloan Management Review. This isn't merely a diversity initiative; it's a strategic imperative that unlocks competitive advantage by leveraging the rich, natural variation in human cognition. By intentionally designing processes for neurodistinct individuals, organisations can profoundly improve: (1) Hiring, by tapping into overlooked talent pools with unique skills (as seen with SAP attracting highly credentialed candidates often missed by traditional interviews); (2) Innovation, through diverse perspectives that spark novel solutions (Microsoft's Teams ‘Blur’ feature emerged from a neurodistinct engineer's insights); and ultimately, (3) Culture, by fostering a more adaptive and truly inclusive environment for everyone. As the article reveals, EY, Microsoft, and SAP are prime examples of organisations already reaping these benefits, demonstrating that embracing neurodiversity enhances collective intelligence and drives superior business outcomes. FRANK DOBBIN AND ALEXANDRA KALEV - Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs Many management innovations designed to improve performance actually boost workforce diversity as well, without inviting the backlash of formal DEI programs. Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev, in their recent HBR article, challenge the traditional view of DEI. They argue that as formal DEI programs face headwinds, HR leaders can still drive significant diversity, equity, and inclusion by focusing on high-performance management techniques that naturally foster inclusion and improve business outcomes, all without the ‘DEI program’ label. They highlight five powerful techniques and provide examples of how these have been implemented by companies: (1) Referral programs: Companies like Oracle use these effectively, often boosting representation organically. (2) Skills upgrading: Walmart exemplifies this, investing in employee upskilling that broadens opportunities for diverse talent (see FIG 15). (3) Mentoring programs: IBM has long leveraged robust mentoring to support career progression across all groups. (4) Scheduling flexibility and stability: Gap demonstrates how providing predictable yet flexible schedules empowers diverse workforces. (5) Performance-based retention: Amazon uses data-driven approaches to identify and retain top performers, inherently benefiting those who excel regardless of background (also see FIG 15). This approach embeds DEI within the fabric of how we manage and develop our people, making it an undeniable component of business success. It’s about doing good by doing well. FIG 15: Walmart and Amazon’s changing workforces (Source: Dobbin and Kalev) HR TECH VOICES Much of the innovation in the field continues to be driven by the vendor and analyst community, and I’ve picked out a few resources from July that I recommend readers delve into: LISA K. SIMON - How Much Is a Skill Worth? In her article, Lisa K. Simon, Chief Economist at Revelio Labs, presents the findings of a new paper, she co-authored with David Dorn, Ludger Woessmann, Moritz Seebacher and Florian Schoner, which finds that the number and type of skills workers report are strong predictors of how much they earn: “In fact, differences in skills predict earnings better than differences in education or past experience. Workers who list more skills tend to be in better-paid jobs. On average, each additional skill listed on a resume is associated with 0.67 percentage points higher earnings.” Another finding is that not all skills are valued equally, with occupation-specific and managerial skills providing the largest boost to income, while a higher prevalence of general skills is associated with lower earnings (see FIG 16). Thanks to Seth Hollander, MBA for highlighting the article and paper. Workers who list more skills tend to be in better-paid jobs. On average, each additional skill listed on a resume is associated with 0.67 percentage points higher earnings. FIG 16: Only having general skills on a resume is associated with lower earnings (Source: Revelio Labs) WARDEN AI - State of AI Bias in Talent Acquisition This is an excellent new report from Jeffrey Pole and the team at Warden AI, which provides a comprehensive and data-driven review of AI bias, compliance and responsible AI practices in talent acquisition – the area of HR, which perhaps has the most significant adoption of AI. With a foreword by Kyle Lagunas, and contributions from the likes of Hung Lee (see quote below) and Sarah Smart, Sultan Murad Saidov and Trent Cotton, key findings include: (1) 75% of HR leaders say bias is a top concern when adopting AI. (2) 15% of AI systems fail to meet fairness metrics for one or more demographic group. (3) AI scores 0.94 vs 0.67 for humans, outperforming on average across fairness metrics (see FIG 17). (4) AI is up to 45% more fair than humans for women and racial minority candidates. Congrats too to Jeff and the team for raising $1.6m in a recent funding round. We are right to worry about AI bias, but we should not forget that the baseline, human only judgment, is far from bias-free - Hung Lee FIG 17: AI outperforms humans across fairness metrics (Source - Warden AI, State of AI Bias in Talent Acquisition) COLE NAPPER - From HR Skills…to HR Jobs When new trends emerge at work, they are likely to first appear as skills. As skills evolve, they consolidate into job titles and full occupations. The prolific Cole Napper highlights Lightcast data to paint a compelling analysis on the journey of people analytics, workforce planning and talent intelligence from trends to skills to jobs: “When new trends emerge at work, they are likely to first appear as skills. As skills evolve, they consolidate into job titles and full occupations.” In the article, Cole presents data visualisations and analysis on how job postings mentioning each of the three skills fluctuated over time, how this translated into job titles, and the wage premium (see FIG 18) that these three categories have on HR salaries in general (on the theme of people strategy and analytics salaries, read this post by Pallavi Narang) Look out for Cole’s book, People Analytics: Using data-driven HR and Gen AI as a business asset, which is available for pre-order now ahead of being published on August 26. FIG 18: Median salaries in HR areas (Source: Lightcast) PODCASTS OF THE MONTH In another month of high-quality podcasts, I’ve selected four gems for your aural pleasure: (you can also check out the latest episodes of the Digital HR Leaders Podcast – see ‘From My Desk’ below): PETER FASOLO - Leading with impact as a chief human resources officer – In this must-listen episode of Capital H, Peter Fasolo, Ph.D., former chief human resources officer at Johnson & Johnson, joins host Kyle Forrest to discuss the power of systems thinking, board collaboration, aligning your people agenda with enterprise strategy, and more. ANGELA LE MATHON - AI-Native HR Operating Model & AI Agents for Skills/Tasks – The brilliant Angela LE MATHON joins Cole Napper to discuss how AI is transforming the work that people analytics does and how the function operates as well as envisioning a new AI-native operating model for HR. SVENJA GUDELL, BROOKE WEDDLE, AND BRYAN HANCOCK - What the labor market isn’t telling you—yet – Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Indeed, joins Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, and host Lucia Rahilly, on an episode of McKinsey Talks Talent to help leaders make sense of the current collision of labour market trends: generative AI, agentic AI, an aging workforce, shifting priorities, and more. BEN WEIN – How Bristol-Myers Squibb used skills data to solve a life-or-death talent shortage – Ben Wein, Director of Workforce Skills Enablement at Bristol Myers Squibb, joins Julius Schelstraete ? on The TechWolf Podcast to share how BMS is becoming a skills-based organisation—starting with a business-critical talent shortage in cell therapy manufacturing. Ben explains how BMS uses skills data to drive faster hiring, smarter workforce planning, and ultimately, patient impact. VIDEO OF THE MONTH DJ PATIL - Data, Decisions, and the Future of Work: How AI and Curiosity Are Redefining Careers Many of the videos of the talks at the recent Wharton People Analytics Conference are now available on the Wharton School YouTube channel, including my talk on How Top Companies Scale People Analytics Adoption. There are some wonderful talks from the likes of Amy Edmondson, Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA, FRSA, Ben Waber, Karalee Close, Guru Sethupathy and Michael Fraccaro, but perhaps my favourite session of the two days was former US Chief Data Scientist DJ Patil’s fireside chat with Eric Bradlow on how firms can harness data science to navigate the future of work. They explore the evolving relationship between AI and human collaboration, the promises and pitfalls of algorithmic management, and how leaders can build ethical, resilient, and high-performing organizations in an increasingly data-driven world. BOOKS OF THE MONTH Given it’s the summer in Europe and North America, here are two books to read while you are getting some well-earned relaxation time: PETER HINSSEN – The Uncertainty Principle - Peter Hinssen's The Uncertainty Principle, his fifth book, is a vital read for HR leaders. It argues we're in a "Never Normal" world, where constant change is inevitable. Hinssen transforms uncertainty from a threat to an opportunity, urging us to move faster and think bigger. For HR, this means embracing ambiguity, leading cultural shifts, leveraging people data, and redefining talent and leadership for relentless evolution. It's about equipping our people to thrive and transform every challenge into a strategic advantage. For a preview of the book, I recommend Peter’s recent discussion with me on the Digital HR Leaders podcast: Uncertainty as an Opportunity: HR's role in Shaping the Future. JENNY DEARBORN AND KELLY RIDER - The Insight-Driven Leader: How High-Performing Companies are Using Analytics to Unlock Business Value - Jenny Dearborn, MBA and Kelly Rider's The Insight-Driven Leader is an inspirational guide to unlocking serious business value through people analytics. This book shows how to transform raw data into powerful workforce insights, solving critical challenges and driving success. You'll learn: (1) How to move beyond traditional rear-view HR metrics to actionable insights. (2) Real-life case studies from leading organisations, as well as cautionary tales. (3) Recommendations for becoming an insights-driven organization using workforce analytics. The book is a must-read for leaders aiming to align data with strategy and build a truly insight-driven culture. FROM MY DESK July saw four new episodes of the Digital HR Leaders podcast – all sponsored by our friends at Mercer (thanks IŞIL ÇAYIRLI KETENCI): ANSHUL SHEOPURI - How People Analytics is Powering Business Strategy - Anshul Sheopuri, Executive Vice President of People Operations & Insights at Mastercard, joins me for a conversation on how to embed analytics into enterprise-wide decision-making at scale. Thanks to Sasha Houlihan for organising. PETER HINSSEN - Uncertainty as an Opportunity: HR's role in Shaping the Future – As highlighted in the Books of the Month above, Peter Hinssen joined me to discuss what it really takes for HR to embrace uncertainty and lead in this era of the ‘Never Normal.’ RAVIN JESUTHASAN AND BRIAN FISHER - The Skills Revolution: Your Playbook for Workforce Agility – Ravin Jesuthasan, CFA, FRSA and Brian Fisher join me to explore why skills-based workforce planning has surged to the top of the HR agenda - and what leading companies are doing to turn intent into action. AMY BAXENDALE - How Arcadis Built a Skills-Powered Organisation – Amy Baxendale , Global Future of Workforce Director at Arcadis, provides a detailed guide on the journey the company has embarked to become a skills-powered organisation. The episode includes discussion on the business case, securing sponsorship, setting up governance, the partnership with Mercer and Eightfold, and the early benefits: We are early in the journey, but we are seeing some promising signs of progress. Our time to hire is trending downwards - that has a direct commercial impact for the business. We've also actually been able to calculate the financial impact of work that's being completed through gigs and show the actual impact on EBITDA LOOKING FOR A NEW ROLE IN PEOPLE ANALYTICS OR HR TECH? I’d like to highlight once again the wonderful resource created by Richard Rosenow and the One Model team of open roles in people analytics and HR technology, which now numbers over 525 roles with half of these being new. THANK YOU To HR magazine and Charissa King for including me again in their annual HR Most Influential list as one of the ten most influential practitioners The Talent Games for including the Digital HR Leaders podcast at #6 in its 27 Best Leadership Podcasts for HR Leaders. Steve Sands for including my work as part of his Human Resource Management Analytics night class at the National College of Ireland. A huge thank you to the following people who either shared the June edition of Data Driven HR Monthly and/or posted about the Digital HR Leaders podcast, conferences or other content. It's much appreciated: Emmanuel Duncan, Rob Baker, FCIPD, MAPP, Richard Hall, Robert Rogowski, Catherine de la Poer, Caroline Lambe, Jeremy Sholl, Narelle Burke, Edan Halili, Francesca Caroleo (SHRM-SCP, ICF-ACC), Uwe Gohr, Joseph Frank, PhD CCP GWCCM, Randeep Kaur, Aaron Chasan, Danial Singh Kang, Jorge-Luis Gonzalez, Anisha Moosaأنيشا موسى?????, Carlos Lopes, Danielle Farrell, MA, CSM, Kris Saling, Hiroyuki MIYAI, Ph.D., Yukiko Hosomi, Dr. Christoph Spöck, Joachim Rotzinger, Kevin Le Vaillant, Seung Won Yoon, Alexis Fink, Timo Tischer, Dr. Tobias Bartholomé, Jose Luis Chavez Vasquez, Meg Bear, Abhinav Tiwari, Esther Abraas, Gareth Flynn, Elizabeth Musso, Jana Glogowski, Maarten van Beek, K Nair, Joonghak Lee, Sameer Tahir, Robert Allen, Volker Jacobs, Bilal Laouah, Florent Maire, Oliver Kasper, Jaap Veldkamp, Patrick Coolen, Jeff Wellstead, Jean-Francois (Jeff) BOUBANGA MIGOLET, Dan George, Shujaat Ahmad, Alexandra Nawrat, People Edge Consulting Ltd., Andrew Spence, Roshaunda Green, MBA, CDSP, Phenom Certified Recruiter ?, Austin Brockert, MBA, Dan Riley, Sanja Licina, Ph.D., Anna A. Tavis, PhD, Stela Lupushor, Jeremy Shapiro, David Simmonds FCIPD, Catriona Lindsay, Aravind Warrier, Michael Arena, Greg Pryor, Isabella Cheshire, Amardeep Singh, MBA, Aline Costa, Anis Alexandros El Namparaoui, Adam Treitler, Helder Figueiredo, Sebastian Knepper, Sebastian Kolberg, Lewis Garrad, Kerry Ghize, Preetha Ghatak Mukharjee, Jacob Nielsen, Pete Jaworski, Søren Kold, Prabhakar Pandey, Avani Solanki Prabhakar, Ian Grant FCIPD, Erik Samdahl, Max Blumberg, Sergey Puchka, Romy Hobson, Bettina Dietsche, Hernan Chiosso, CSPO, SPHR ?, Paola Alfaro Alpízar, Sergio Garcia Mora, Hanadi El Sayyed, David van Lochem, Maria Nolazco Masson, David McLean, Clara W Estanqueiro, Shonna Waters, PhD, Kevin Martin, Kathi Enderes, Serena H. Huang, Ph.D., Smadar Tadmor, Tobias W. Goers ツ, Dr. Denise Turley AI.Impact.Equity, Stella Ioannidou, Apeksha Awaji, Evan Franz, MBA, L N Divya Mudundi, Ross Sparkman, Salman Farooq, Megan Reitz, Todd Tauber, Heather Muir, AJ Herrmann, Priyanka Mehrotra, Oliver Auty, Priya Subrahmanyan, Naotake Momiyama, Bill Banham, Matthew Yerbury, Prachi Agasti, Robin Haag, Fabian Stokes, MBA, SWP, Monika Manova, Barry Swales, Dean Carter, Ian OKeefe, Ying Li, Alexandre Monin, Mike Zarrilli, Natasha Fearon, Pedro Pereira, David Balls (FCIPD), Naomi Verghese, Geetanjali Gamel, Frankie Close, Warren Howlett, Stephanie Murphy, Ph.D., John Gunawan, Jesse Clark, MBA, Caitie Jacobson Mikulis, Meghan M. Biro, Dan Trares, Kouros Behzad, Kathleen Kruse, Nick Lynn, Mariana Allain Carrasqueira, Marina Pearce, PhD, Dawn Klinghoffer, Raquel Mitie Harano, Delia Majarín, Deborah M. Weiss, Courtney McMahon, Nirit Peled-Muntz, Hanne Hoberg, Adam McKinnon, PhD., Don Dela Paz, Matt Elk, Sophia Houziaux, Danielle Bushen, Nabil Dewsi, Sai Bon Timmy Cheung 張世邦, Dolapo (Dolly) Oyenuga Agnes Garaba, Wouter Minten, Olly Britnell, Nick Hudgell, Roxanne Laczo, PhD, Claire Masson, Daisy Grewal, Ph.D., Laura Cole, Brian Elliott, Erin Eatough, PhD Henrik Håkansson Gabe Horwitz Russell Klosk (智能虎) The final note this month is a sad one - rest in peace Diogo Jota and André Silva. ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Green ?? is a globally respected author, speaker, conference chair, and executive consultant on people analytics, data-driven HR and the future of work. As Managing Partner and Executive Director at Insight222, he has overall responsibility for the delivery of the Insight222 People Analytics Program, which supports the advancement of people analytics in over 100 global organisations. Prior to co-founding Insight222, David accumulated over 20 years experience in the human resources and people analytics fields, including as Global Director of People Analytics Solutions at IBM. As such, David has extensive experience in helping organisations increase value, impact and focus from the wise and ethical use of people analytics. David also hosts the Digital HR Leaders Podcast and is an instructor for Insight222's myHRfuture Academy. His book, co-authored with Jonathan Ferrar, Excellence in People Analytics: How to use Workforce Data to Create Business Value was published in the summer of 2021. MEET ME AT THESE EVENTS I'll be speaking about people analytics, the future of work, and data driven HR at a number of upcoming events in 2025: July 31 - August 1 - People Matters TechHR India 2025, Delhi August 13-16 - GCHRA Africa, Accra, Ghana (I will join virtually) September 25 - Visier Outsmart Local London, London October 7-9 - Insight222 Global Executive Retreat, Atlanta (exclusive to the people analytics leader in member companies of the Insight222 People Analytics Program®) October 15-16 - People Analytics World, New York October 21-22 - UNLEASH World, Paris November 12-13 - HR Forum 2025, Oslo More events will be added as they are confirmed.
    员工体验
    2025年07月27日
  • 员工体验
    Is The HR Profession As We Know It Doomed? In A Strange Way, Yes. I just spent a week in London meeting with several dozen companies and most of the discussion was about AI. The overwhelming majority of the conversations were about how companies are struggling, pushing, and agitating about the implications of AI, both within HR and within their teams. Coming from the CEO and CFO, HR team are under intense pressure to automate, improve their services, and reduce headcount with AI. Yes, we know AI is a technology for growth and scale, but the main message right now is “hurry up and do some productivity projects.” And “Productivity,” as you know, is a veiled way of saying “Downsizing.” So before I get back to HR, let me discuss downsizing. It’s absolutely true that almost every company we work with has too many people. Why? We have a sloppy way of hiring people, allocating resources, and managing work. We delegate “headcount” to managers and they go out and hire as many people as they can. We don’t really teach (or incent) managers how to build “productivity,” we actually do the opposite. We tend to reward them for “hiring more people.” The result is a problem I just talked about with a large advertising company: too many weird jobs and no consistency or structure to our work. This particular company has around 100,000 employees and more than 60,000 job titles.  In other words almost every job is “invented for this person.” It’s insane. The whole reason we have companies (and not individual craftsmen) is to build scale. If we expect every individual manager to figure out how to scale, we’re more or less designing low productivity into the business. There are some simple models we use:  call centers, global services groups, shared services, capability communities, and centers of excellence. But that kind of high-level productivity design is now becoming obsolete. In this new era of high-powered multi-functional agents, we need to go much further. Elon Musk likes the “first principles” approach. Fire everyone and start from “first principles,” only hiring the people you urgently need to build, sell, and support your product. That may work in small companies but when you’re big there are too many “support services” to consider.   One of the companies we are working with has “program managers” and “project managers” and “analysts” sprinkled all over the organization in random places. In other words, their core staff don’t know how to manage projects, programs, or data. So there’s a bunch of overhead staff doing this for them.  Drives me crazy.  This took place because there was no discipline in hiring, so each group “bulked up” with staff. This is really business as usual. Organization design is an old, crusty, under-utilized domain so most companies barely think about it. IBM told me a few years ago that their “org design” strategy is to “hire a high performing executive and let him or her figure it out.” I hear that, it’s quite common. The bottom line is this: if we want to get a sound ROI from all these AI tools and agents we have to get a lot smarter about “work design.” And that is not building org charts, it’s the basics of figuring out our workflows, areas of common and uncommon process, and where and how we can automate. Most of our clients have tons of productivity systems already (ServiceNow, Salesforce, Workday, whatever), but they either don’t know how or don’t have the discipline to use them well. So they just keep hiring people. As an engineer I see this visibly all the time. It’s very easy to delegate a “problem” to a person, and not think about it as “plumbing.” But it is plumbing. As Tanuj Kapilashrami from Standard Charter put it, we need to focus on plumbing first, then we figure out where to apply AI. This means we can’t just cross our fingers and hope that the Microsoft Copilot is going to make everyone more productive. We need to look at business processes and skills at the core, and then literally reinvent our companies around these new AI tools. And skills are very important. The reason companies hire a bunch of “analysts” and “project managers” is because individuals and existing managers just aren’t good at their jobs. We all need to learn how to project manage, schedule, and analyze work. That way these high-powered specialists can work on big things, not sit in staff meetings taking notes (where AI note-takers do this well). (By the way, I have to guess that we’ll soon have AI agents for project management, program management, and functional analytics, so those staff jobs are going to be automated next!) How Does This Impact HR Let’s get back to HR. Given this massive effort to re-engineer and implement AI, where does HR fit? Well fundamentally HR is tasked to build process, expertise, and advisory services around the “people processes” in the company.  That means hiring, developing, managing, paying, rewarding, and supporting people.  It’s a big mission, and when we start to focus on “productivity” then HR must be involved. The general belief is that a “well run” HR team has about a 1:100 ratio to the company. In other words, if you have 10,000 employees you’re going to have around 100 HR people. And the HR team doesn’t just run around doing things, they buy and build HR technology for scale. So HR itself, as a “plumbing” type of operation, needs to be “lean and mean.” If your CEO wants you to hire 50 top notch AI engineers you can’t just start phoning everyone you know: you must decide precisely how you’re going to do this in a scalable, efficient, and highly effective way. (AI engineers are rare, they’re hard to hire!) So your little HR team has to think about productivity.  Should we outsource this? (Which is a cheap and dirty way to look productive.) Should we buy a talent intelligence or sourcing system?  Should we hire three high-powered recruiters?  You know where I’m going.  We have to find a way to “be productive” while we try to “make the company productive.” This means we, as a support and advisory function (HR professionals spend a lot of time coaching and supporting managers) have to stop creating forms and checklists and implement AI agents as fast as we can. Why? Because so much of our work is transactional, workflow-oriented, and administratively complex. And AI can do a lot of amazing things, like “assessing the skills of an AI engineer” for example. (Our AI Galileo can literally evaluate a recorded interview and give you a pretty good assessment of an individuals skills, mapped against the Lightcast, SHL, and Heidrick functional and leadership models.) Let’s assume we do this well, and HR technology vendors give us good products. We wind up with amazing recruiting agents, AI agents for employee training, onboarding, and coaching, AI agents that help with performance management, AI agents for succession and careers, and AI agents that deal with all the myriad of personal benefits and workplace questions people have.  Where do we end up? Do we “automate away” our own jobs? Well, in a way the answer is yes. AI, through its miraculous data integration and generation capabilities, can probably do 50—75% of the work we do in HR. All this is far from built out yet, but it’s clearly coming. (We just talked with a large pharmaceutical company that is “all-AI” and they manage a team of 6,000+ scientists and manufacturing experts with only ten people in learning and development. They’ve automated training, compliance tracking, onboarding, leadership support, and all the details of training operations.) Could you do all that for a fast-growing 6,000 person company with 10 people? I doubt it. Most companies would have more than 10 people in sales training and sales enablement alone. So here’s my point. HR, like other functional areas in our companies, is going to have a real-life identity crisis. If you can’t figure out how to move your HR function up the maturity level quickly (check out our Systemic HR maturity model) someone’s just going to cut your headcount (the Elon Musk approach). Then you’ll be figuring out AI in a hurry. (Galileo can assess your HR maturity with its “consulting mode,” by the way.) I’m not saying this is easy. The AI products we need barely exist yet. But the pressure is on. You shouldn’t wait for the CFO to point his “productivity gun” in your face, you have to get ahead of this wave. Start pushing yourself to fix plumbing, check out the new tools in the market, get your IT team involved, and redesign your work using your own expertise. Many surprisingly good things will happen. Let me give you an example. A few years ago Chipotle adopted an AI-based agent system for recruiting, effectively automating a complex workflow for hiring. Not only did it save millions of dollars, the “speed and quality” of hiring went up so high the CEO talked about it as their top “revenue driver” with Jim Cramer on CNBC. In other words this “identity crisis” in HR is a good thing. Our recruiting, training, and employee services groups are too big. AI can automate enormous amounts of this work. So my advice is this. As the AI wave sweeps across your company, get out your old “org design” book and start redesigning how your HR team operates right now. Then you can go to the AI vendors and tell them what you want. That’s the secret to keeping HR in tip-top shape. Will HR go away? Well a lot of the process, data management, and support roles will absolutely change. And yes, employees and job candidates will happily use intelligent bots instead of calling their favorite HR manager. But as a Superworker, you, as an HR professional will do more interesting things. You’ll become a consultant; you’ll manage and train AI systems; and you’ll have much more real-time information about the strength and weaknesses of your company.  We’re just going to have to lean into this AI wave to get there. As AI agents arrive, it’s time to seriously re-engineer HR. And this time it’s not a transformation, it’s a reinvention. Bottom line is this. Don’t wait for Workday, SAP, or some other vendor to “invent” a tool that changes your HR operation. You should do it yourself first and bring your IT people with you. That way you’ll buy and build the AI systems you need, and the result will be a new career, an even better HR function, and the opportunity to help your company move from “hiring” to “productivity” in the future.   我刚刚在伦敦与数十家企业进行了为期一周的交流,大部分讨论都围绕着AI展开。绝大多数对话的主题是:公司在应对AI带来的影响时,感到焦虑、推动、甚至焦躁不安,这种焦虑不仅体现在HR部门,也体现在各业务团队中。 在CEO和CFO的压力下,HR团队正被要求加速自动化、优化服务、并通过AI实现人员精简。虽然我们都知道AI是一种能够促进增长和规模化的技术,但当前传递出的主要信息是:“赶紧推动生产力项目。” 而所谓的“生产力”,实际上就是“裁员”的委婉说法。 先谈谈裁员 几乎我们接触的每一家企业,都的确存在人员过剩的问题。这是为什么呢? 因为我们的招聘、资源配置和工作管理方式本身就非常低效。我们将“编制名额”下放给各级管理者,而他们则倾向于尽可能多地招聘人员。 我们并没有真正教导或激励管理者如何构建高效的生产力,反而往往奖励他们“扩大团队规模”。结果就是,像我最近在一家大型广告公司看到的那样,组织中充满了各种各样的职位,但缺乏统一性和结构性。这家公司有约10万名员工,却设有超过6万个不同的岗位头衔——几乎每个职位都是为某个人量身定制的,这种做法显然荒谬。 企业存在的根本目的,是为了实现规模化。如果每个部门经理都各自为战,自行搭建团队架构,那无异于将低效深植于企业之中。 虽然我们有一些基本的组织效率模型,比如呼叫中心、全球服务中心、共享服务、能力中心等,但这些传统设计在当下正逐渐过时。在高性能多功能AI代理全面普及的时代,我们必须走得更远。 从“第一性原理”重构组织? Elon Musk 推崇“第一性原理”方法——即解散现有团队,只从零开始招聘最核心、最迫切需要的人员。这种方法在小型公司或许奏效,但在大型企业中,由于存在大量“支持服务”,简单地“砍掉重建”并不可行。 现实中,很多公司在各个角落散布着项目经理、程序经理、分析师等职位,因为核心员工缺乏管理项目、推进计划、或进行数据分析的能力。由于招聘过程中缺乏严格的标准和规划,各部门纷纷自行扩编,导致组织臃肿、效率低下。 组织设计本来就是一门古老且被严重忽视的学问,多数公司对此缺乏系统化思考。IBM 曾表示,他们的组织设计策略是“聘请一位高绩效高管,让他/她自己摸索出解决方案”——这实际上是行业普遍现象。 AI真正改变的,是“工作设计” 如果我们希望从AI工具和代理中获得真正的投资回报率,就必须彻底重新思考“工作设计”——不仅仅是画组织结构图,而是要厘清工作流程、标准化与非标准化的业务环节,并找出可以自动化的领域。 尽管大多数企业已经部署了大量的生产力系统(如ServiceNow、Salesforce、Workday等),但由于缺乏使用这些系统的能力或纪律,反而持续地通过“增加人手”来解决问题。 作为一名工程师,我对此体会尤深。将问题推给某个人远比优化底层“管道”来得容易。然而,管理工作流程就像修建城市水管系统——如果基础设施不合理,再先进的AI工具也无济于事。 正如渣打银行Tanuj Kapilashrami所说:“必须先修好管道,才能合理应用AI。” 这意味着,我们不能指望微软Copilot之类的工具神奇地提升员工生产力。我们必须从根本上重新审视业务流程与员工技能,并围绕AI重新设计整个企业运作模式。 员工技能,未来的关键 企业之所以聘请大量“分析师”和“项目经理”,往往是因为普通员工和管理者缺乏项目管理、时间安排、数据分析等基本技能。未来,所有人都需要掌握这些能力,而不再依赖大量辅助人员。高阶专业人才应当专注于重大事务,而不是出席会议做会议记录(AI记录工具早已能胜任此事)。 (顺便提一句,我预测很快就会出现AI项目经理、AI程序经理、AI数据分析师——这些岗位也将逐步被自动化!) 那么HR会怎样? 回到HR领域,当企业致力于重塑流程、导入AI时,HR的角色至关重要。 HR的本质任务是构建并管理围绕“人”的各项流程:招聘、培养、管理、薪酬、激励与支持等。这项使命极为庞大,当公司将焦点转向“提升生产力”时,HR必须积极参与。 一般认为,一个运作良好的HR团队与公司整体人数的理想比例是1:100。也就是说,一家拥有1万名员工的公司,大约需要100名HR人员。而优秀的HR团队不仅自己高效运作,更会采购、搭建技术系统,以实现规模化管理。 举例来说,如果CEO要求你招聘50名顶尖AI工程师,你不能只是随便打几个电话,而是要设计一套高效、可扩展的方法。这可能包括外包、引进人才情报系统、招聘高端猎头,等等。总之,HR自身也必须成为高效运作的样板。 因此,HR团队必须迅速引入AI代理,取代大量重复性事务,尤其是那些依赖工作流、流程管理和行政性处理的工作。比如,我们的Galileo系统已经可以自动评估候选人的面试表现,并将其技能映射到Lightcast、SHL和Heidrick的领导力模型。 未来,HR工作会消失吗? 某种程度上,答案是肯定的。 凭借出色的数据整合和生成能力,AI可以完成50%-75%的HR工作。目前这些AI系统尚未完全成熟,但趋势已经非常明显。 我们刚刚与一家大型制药企业交流,他们已经基本实现了“全AI化管理”,以仅10人规模的学习与发展团队,服务6000多名科学家和制造专家。他们通过AI自动完成了培训、合规追踪、入职辅导、领导力支持等任务。对于大多数公司来说,这种效率简直是难以想象的。 HR将迎来身份危机 未来,HR必须迅速向更高的成熟度迈进(可以参考我们提出的Systemic HR Maturity Model)。否则,就会像Elon Musk那样,被大规模裁员,并被迫在短时间内仓促上马AI项目。 我并不是说这条路轻松易行。事实上,市面上真正成熟的AI HR产品还非常有限。但压力已经到来。 HR不能等着CFO拿着“生产力枪”指着自己,必须主动出击,修好内部“管道”,试用新工具,联合IT团队,重新设计工作模式。这样,你将能主动选择适合自己公司的AI系统,并构建一个全新的、充满机遇的职业未来。 结语:HR的重塑与再创造 让我们看看Chipotle的案例。他们通过部署基于AI的招聘代理,成功自动化了复杂的招聘流程,不仅节省了数百万美元,还大幅提升了招聘速度和质量。甚至在接受CNBC采访时,CEO将这一成果称为公司的“主要营收驱动因素”。 这场HR身份危机,其实是一个难得的机遇。 我们今天的招聘、培训、员工服务团队规模普遍过大。AI将能够自动化其中大量工作。我的建议是:在AI浪潮席卷而来之前,立即拿起你尘封已久的组织设计手册,重新设计HR团队的运作方式。这样,当面对AI供应商时,你可以主动提出自己的需求,而不是被动接受他们的产品。 未来HR不会消失,但大量传统流程、数据管理与支持岗位将发生剧变。员工与候选人也会越来越习惯通过智能机器人,而非人力HR来解决问题。 不过,真正优秀的HR专业人士,将会变成超能型人才(Superworker)——你将成为企业战略顾问、AI系统训练师,并且能够实时掌握公司人才与流程的整体健康状况。 这次,不再是简单的“转型”,而是真正意义上的“再创造”。
    员工体验
    2025年04月26日
  • 员工体验
    The top 5 HR trends today – and HR's guide to what's next SAP SuccessFactors 每年都会深入研究全球 HR 趋势,以帮助企业制定更有效的人才战略。2025 年,他们分析了来自 40 家全球权威媒体的 254 项预测,归纳出 5 大核心“元趋势”,展现 HR 在企业中的双重角色:既是变革的“指挥者”,也是政策落地的“引航者”。 1️⃣ 重新连接员工: 由于经济压力、决策争议和信任危机,员工体验恶化,57% 的员工认为如果公司不采取措施,他们的倦怠问题不会改善。HR 需关注心理契约,增强员工信任。 2️⃣ AI 从炒作走向实际价值: AI 进入大规模落地阶段,企业需明确 ROI 并平衡员工和领导者对 AI 价值的不同预期。46% 的员工认为 AI 省下的时间属于自己,而非公司。 3️⃣ 技能转型的平衡策略: 由于 AI 发展迅猛,企业技能鸿沟加剧。除了关注技能,薪酬激励成为推动学习的重要因素,54% 的员工表示,如果公司实施基于技能的薪酬体系,他们会更愿意学习新技能。 4️⃣ DEI&B 的分歧: 企业对多元化、公平性和包容性(DEI&B)态度不一,26% 的员工认为公司对 DEI&B 关注过多,而 33% 认为关注太少。HR 需明确 DEI&B 战略,以促进长期文化变革。 5️⃣ 混合办公的未来: 组织已基本确定办公模式,2025 年将验证其成效。54% 的员工愿意牺牲部分薪酬,以换取更大的工作灵活性。 这些趋势展现了 HR 在塑造未来工作模式中的关键作用,企业需借助创新技术和数据驱动的洞察来优化人力资源管理。 Each year, the HR Research Scientists at SAP SuccessFactors conduct research to understand the top HR and workforce trends facing organizations and share our perspective on what HR teams should consider as they look to help their companies address these trends. This year we aggregated and synthesized data from 40 global and regional reputable business press sources that put forward 254 individual trends and predictions grounded in their own research and data. We then conducted a content analysis of the trends sample to derive the five key themes, or “meta-trends.” While our annual report always includes some pointed commentary and critique about each trend based on our expertise in psychology, new this year is calling upon our own body of original applied research to incorporate datapoints and insights, resulting in a more evidence-based point of view. This year’s trends are in different stages of maturity and on different trajectories; therefore, the role that HR needs to play to help businesses tackle and capitalize on these trends is different. We’ve organized the trends into two sections aligned to the dual role HR will play in addressing them. First, HR will need to act as a Conductor, leading the orchestration of a strategy and associated change management across the business to realize the opportunities these trends offer: Trend #1: Reconnecting the disconnected employee: Contentious decisions, macroeconomic and sociopolitical stressors, and breached trust with leadership has led to employee stress and burnout – and consequently, a crisis of disconnect and counterproductivity. In the year ahead: Leaders must ruthlessly prioritize fulfilling their end of the “psychological contract” by meeting employees’ basic needs. People managers will be seen as a lifeline for employees drowning in disconnect. STAT: 57% of employees feel unless their companies make some serious changes, their burnout will not get better. Trend #2: Moving from AI hype to AI impact:Organizations are shifting from AI pilot projects to enterprise-wide rollouts, demanding proof of clear value and ROI. In the year ahead: Organizations will home in on their key value drivers for AI, revealing their true priorities. The body of research on the ROI of AI will be built this year. Organizations will find friction between leaders’ and employees’ goals for using AI. STAT: 46% of employees feel that the time that they save by using AI tools at work belongs to them, not their organization.​ Trend #3: Striking a balance to steer skills forward: Organizations continue to face pervasive skills gaps, in part due to rapid AI advancements. A more balanced approach is needed to see tangible progress in skills-based transformations this year. In the year ahead: “Skills-based” will no longer be the only goal. Pay will prove itself the missing piece of the upskilling puzzle. The human vs. technical skill debate will move from or to and. STAT: 54% of employees would be more motivated to learn new skills if their company instituted skills-based pay.​ Second, HR will need to act as a Navigator, leading the organization through precarious waters and circumventing obstacles to put policies into practice for the betterment of all stakeholders: Trend #4: Divesting or doubling down on diversity, equity, inclusions, and belonging (DEI&B): Some organizations remain committed to DEI&B goals, continuing to ask “How are we going to do this?” Others plan to divest, instead now asking “Are we going to do this?” In the year ahead: Some will shy away from DEI&B goals, but these approaches will vary. Taking a stand on DEI&B will change company cultures in the long term, but it’s not clear exactly how. STAT: 26% of employees say companies focus too much on DEI&B, 41% of employees say companies focus an appropriate amount on DEI&B, and 33% of employees say companies focus too little on DEI&B. Trend #5: Plugging into or pulling the plug on hybrid work: Now that organizations have determined their position on where their employees will work, it’s time to see if they achieve the outcomes they intended. In the year ahead: Those businesses choosing the return-to-office path will see whether their bets paid off this year. Those choosing the hybrid or remote path will take it a step further, integrating autonomy as a core value in other aspects of work design. STAT: 54% of employees would consider being paid less if they could have more flexibility in where and when they work. Read the report to see what’s now and what’s next for each trend, along with some fast facts that uplevel the nerdiness of this year’s trends report. We also include a section on how SAP SuccessFactors solutions can help organizations address the 2025 HR trends.
    员工体验
    2025年03月07日
  • 员工体验
    Josh Bersin :SuccessFactors Leapfrogs HCM Capabilities: AI, Skills, Talent Intelligence, And More 本周,SuccessFactors 宣布了一系列重大更新,巩固其在人力资本管理(HCM)市场的领先地位。这些新功能包括 AI 驱动的工作推荐、文本分析、绩效评估和全球工资单升级等。SuccessFactors 还推出了开放的技能系统,并与 Lightcast、Degreed 等技能供应商合作,提供更全面的职业发展工具。此外,通过整合 WalkMe,SuccessFactors 改善了用户体验,使其在实施和使用方面更具优势。Dan Beck 的领导下,SuccessFactors 持续推动 HR 技术的创新与发展。 有兴趣进一步了解下 This week SuccessFactors announced a vast array of new features, focused on taking the lead in the red hot HCM war against Workday, Oracle, and others. These capabilities fall into four areas, each of which bring SAP into a leading position in many areas of the global HCM market. (Product details here.) As I learned about the release I noticed the fingerprints of Dan Beck, the company’s new president and chief product officer. Dan has been at SAP for 11 months and has accelerated the company’s technology roadmap and focus on total solutions. Let me summarize what’s new. 1. More And More AI Capabilities Built-In First, of course, is AI. Two years ago SAP announced its “Business AI” strategy, which describes how all SAP business applications are integrated and enhanced with AI. (Workday’s similar strategy Illuminate was launched a few months ago.) In the prior release SuccessFactors described 63 AI use-cases; this week they introduced 30 more. And all are integrated into Joule, SAP’s intelligent Agent. Each “use-case” is essentially an AI application and many are quite complex:  automatically developing job descriptions, analyzing performance reviews, setting and aligning goals, developing onboarding, creating growth plans, and evaluating pay inequities. In other words these AI “features” are really automation workflows that each eliminate hours of work for HR professionals. Since each is also integrated into Joule, you can use them through the conversational interface. While many HR vendors are adding AI features, I find SAP’s particularly robust because they’re integrated into the entire lifecycle of an employee. SAP’s engineering focus really shows here. Some of the new features include AI-based job recommendations to job seekers (and internal employees), text analysis and editing for performance reviews, and new mobile use-cases for Joule. 2. Upgrades to Global Payroll The second set of announcements are a significant update to global payroll.  SAP currently has the broadest global payroll solution in the market and now has a new UI, a Payroll Command Center, and a sophisticated AI offering called “Explain Pay Slip.” You will effectively be able to ask Joule “why has my pay changed from last month” and it will dig into all the details and explain the differences. This covers 70% or more of the questions employees ask HR service centers, so this feature has an enormous ROI. Employee Central, the company’s core HR and payroll module, now has a more integrated view of all benefits and more integrations with Joule, making the 52-country payroll system the broadest in the market. 3. Open Skills System and Launch of Career and Talent Development The third set of announcements will change the HR Tech market: SAP is formerly opening up its Talent Intelligence Hub to accommodate every skills and skillstech vendor. Providers like Lightcast, Korn Ferry, Techwolf (SAP invested in them), and Degreed can now feed the SuccessFactors skills system and SAP is going to build tools to normalize and harmonize skills. This brings SAP to parity or beyond Workday Skills Cloud: the skills model is integrated into Opportunity Marketplace, Career and Talent Development (the new version of SuccessFactors learning), and SuccessFactors job architecture, team management, performance management, and recruiting. The new Career and Talent Development offering also introduces AI-assisted career insights, leveraging skills and aspirations to find relevant jobs and career paths. The system lets managers create assignments, find and onboard internal candidates, and then use Work Zone (onboarding and enablement) to start their new internal position. This level of integration goes beyond tools from Gloat or Eightfold or others for internal talent marketplace. Several years ago SuccessFactors introduced its comprehensive skills strategy and today it’s coming to fruition. There are several major implications here. First, vendors like Eightfold, Gloat, Phenom, Beamery, and many others will have to decide how they partner or compete with SAP. Last month I met with both Delta Air Lines and Pepsi, both of which are using SuccessFactors Talent Intelligence hub as their new end-to-end platform. Each company told me that they no longer felt the need to use some of these other third party products. Second, the SuccessFactors skills model is expansive. In addition to harmonizing and helping companies build technical and leadership models, the system itself has its “whole self” module which includes aspirations, styles, motivations, and preferences. Companies that use this can add subtle human needs to the model. Other vendors have tried this (Cornerstone and Gloat both ask users to express career and personal work preferences) but SAP, with its enormous customer base, has the potential to leverage this across industries. Imagine an employee in IT who aspires to work in HR, for example – the system would find the HR Tech jobs within the company which leverage their architectural or technical skills. SuccessFactors also includes a mature system for team-based work, which is missing in these other applications. This release adds AI-assisted 360 reviews, performance templates, and integration with Joule (employees and managers can share performance information through the agent.) 4. Integration of WalkMe into SuccessFactors. The fourth major announcement is the bundling and integration of WalkMe. Given the vast and complex nature of SuccessFactors, there are many places to read documentation and learn how the system works. This forces customers to build large training programs for users. (All HCM platforms have this issue.) WalkMe, which was acquired this year for $1.5 Billion, is the leading provider of “digital adoption platforms.” It is essentially an advanced AI system that watches a user’s interaction with a system to coach, train, and automate your work. Initially developed to help users learn how to use systems like SAP or Salesforce, WalkMe advanced into a highly intelligent real-time coach, similar to what we now expect out of an AI agent. While I don’t know how this will be priced, this gives SuccessFactors an “ease of implementation” advantage. WalkMe is an open platform and does support many HCM applications, but now that it’s integrated and bundled into SAP customers will find SuccessFactors much easier to deploy and use. (Just for your reference, the SuccessFactors and Workday “how to” manuals include nearly 1,000+ pages each.) Bottom Line: SuccessFactors Leadership Emerges SAP’s ambitious, long-term engineering approach to human capital management is clear. I’ve been watching SuccessFactors since it was a small independent company in California, now growing to a vast cloud business with 10,000+ customers and more than 150 million end users. This release demonstrates how patience, engineering excellence, and relentless focus on customers pays off in enterprise software. Under the leadership of Dan Beck, SuccessFactors now offers industry-leading capabilities in most areas of HCM, giving customers an even deeper offering to consider as HR technology rapidly evolves.
    员工体验
    2024年10月28日
  • 员工体验
    2024年组织中人力资源部门的21个关键角色-来自AIHR 组织中人力资源部门的21个关键角色,分为“关键角色”、“合规角色”和“新兴角色”三个部分,如下所示: 关键角色 吸引候选人:开发和执行策略以吸引合适的候选人。 选择候选人:从众多申请者中挑选出最适合的候选人。 内部和外部招聘:内部晋升和外部招聘的管理。 绩效评估:对员工的工作表现进行评估。 薪酬:设计和实施薪酬策略。 员工福利管理:设计和管理员工福利计划。 学习与发展:确保员工技能与组织需求保持一致。 合规角色 晋升:晋升机制的设计与实施。 问题解决小组:创建和管理解决问题的小组。 全面质量管理(TQM):实施全面质量管理以提高服务或产品质量。 信息共享:确保重要信息能够及时传达给所有员工。 组织发展:通过战略性的人力资源管理提升组织效能。 调查管理:管理各种员工调查,收集反馈以改进工作环境。 合规管理:确保公司遵守所有相关法律和规章制度。 商业合作伙伴:HR作为管理层的战略合作伙伴,提供人力资源解决方案。 新兴角色 数据与分析管理:使用数据分析来支持决策过程。 人力资源技术管理:管理和优化HR相关的技术和系统。 变更管理:领导和管理组织变更。 员工体验:设计和改进员工的整体工作体验。 多元化、公平、包容和归属感(DEIB):推广和实施多元化和包容性策略。 公关:管理公司的公共形象和应对公关危机。 原文来自:https://www.aihr.com/blog/human-resources-roles/   Attracting candidates, Selecting candidates, Hiring from within and from outside, Performance appraisals, Compensation, Employee benefit management, Learning & development, Promotions, Problem-solving groups, Total quality management (TQM), Information sharing, Organizational development, Survey management, Compliance management, Business partnering, Data & analytics management, HR technology management, Change management, Employee experience, DEIB, PR 吸引候选人、选择候选人、内部和外部招聘、绩效评估、薪酬、员工福利管理、学习与发展、晋升、问题解决小组、全面质量管理 (TQM)、信息共享、组织发展、调查管理、合规管理、业务合作、数据与分析管理、人力资源技术管理、变革管理、员工体验、DEIB、公共关系  
    员工体验
    2024年05月12日
  • 员工体验
    【案例】HR如何在人工智能时代更优秀:引领学习与创新 在人工智能(AI)迅速成为工作场所新常态的时代,人力资源(HR)专业人士面临前所未有的机遇和挑战。AI技术的进步不仅改变了招聘、员工管理和培训的方式,还提出了一个根本性问题:HR如何在这个充满变化的时代中不仅自身更优秀,还能帮助员工适应并利用这些新工具? 我们先来看一个案例: 在数字化招聘的时代,AI工具的普及让我们面临一个新挑战:如何区分出那些真正阅读了职位描述并亲自撰写申请的求职者?今天,我要分享一个案例,它能帮助你在海量求职信中快速识别出真正细心的候选人。 想象一下,你发布了一个职位,指示应聘者在回应中包含特定的信息,比如说“I am an LLM”。这看似无害的一句话,却能成为识别应聘者是否仔细阅读职位详情的关键。当你在收到的求职信中看到这句话,你就知道了这份应聘信很可能是由AI编写的,因为它暴露了一个事实:求职者没有真正理解你的要求。 通过这个小测试,我们不仅能够过滤掉那些依赖技术快捷方式的应聘者,还能让筛选过程更加高效有趣。这个策略不仅节省了我们的时间,而且提升了我们对候选人细节关注能力的判断。 下面我们一起来看看如何在AI时代更好的 与时俱进:理解AI的可能性 首先,HR必须理解AI技术能为组织带来什么。AI可以处理大量数据,为招聘提供深入洞察,优化员工的工作体验,并通过自动化常规任务来提高效率。HR专业人士必须成为技术的先行者,学习如何最大限度地利用这些工具,并将它们整合到日常工作中。 不断学习:提升技能与知识 不断学习是HR在AI时代蓬勃发展的关键。这意味着不仅要了解最新的HR技术,还要提升数据分析、人机交互和伦理等领域的知识。通过参加研讨会、网络课程和专业培训,HR可以保持其技能的相关性和竞争力。 培养创新文化:鼓励探索与实验 HR可以在组织内部营造一种文化,鼓励探索和实验AI解决方案。这不仅限于技术本身,还包括对工作流程和策略的重新思考。HR应该领导这场文化转变,推动团队不断寻找改进工作方式的新方法。 教育员工:普及AI知识与应用 除了提升自己的技能,HR还有责任教育员工关于AI的基础知识。这包括如何与AI工具互动,以及这些工具如何增强他们的工作效率。通过定期的培训和研讨会,HR可以帮助员工理解并适应这些新技术。 引领道德与合规:确保AI的负责任使用 随着AI的应用越来越广泛,HR也必须确保其在道德和合规方面的正确使用。这意味着必须确保AI工具不会加剧偏见或不公平,以及保护员工的数据隐私。 结语 HR专业人士在人工智能时代的角色已经从传统的管理者转变为变革的领导者。通过不断学习、推动创新、教育员工和确保道德合规,HR不仅能够在AI时代中更加优秀,还能帮助整个组织发展和增长。随着技术的发展,HR的这些角色将变得更加重要,不仅是为了他们自己的职业发展,也是为了他们所服务的组织和员工的福祉。
    员工体验
    2024年02月12日
  • 员工体验
    What Issues are Top of the Mind for HR Leaders Heading into 2024? 根据康奈尔大学工业劳动关系学院高级人力资源研究中心的一份调查报告,“转型和演变”这一广泛而重要的话题最近受到人力资源领导者的关注,该问题被确定为2024年企业的最紧迫问题。 “考虑到公司一直面临的所有颠覆,无论是在业务方面,还是在地缘政治问题的更广泛环境中,看到转型成为今年的首要目标,我并不感到惊讶,”康奈尔大学战略人力资源教授兼该中心主任布拉德贝尔说。 根据上周发布的调查,超过三分之二(67%)的人力资源领导者认为转型和演变(包括人力资源转型、文化演变和混合工作演变)是首要问题。而2023年,转型与演进排名第三,只有大约45%的受访者认为是首要问题。 调查显示,由于地缘政治力量和劳动力变化导致的业务中断正在加剧人们对转型和演变的担忧。Bell 说,人力资源领导者特别关注人力资源内部的转型,例如保持公司的敏捷性、提高效率和优化运营。他指出,中东的冲突和乌克兰的持续战争限制了这些地区的员工流动,另外,总体上减缓了一些人力资源转型工作。他补充说,对组织治理问题的高度关注,包括股东对高管薪酬的发言权,也在缓和人力资源转型,因为这种努力可能会限制招聘工作。  此外,Bell 表示,调查参与者报告说,快速的组织文化变化使员工难以建立联系并发展共同的目标,尤其是在当今分散的工作环境中。作为回应,人力资源领导者经常更新他们的混合工作模式,这可能会损害包容性或其他相关目标,从而阻碍文化发展。 HR 优先事项如何变化 排名前五的问题分别是人才管理、技术、员工体验以及领导力和继任计划。 Bell说,技术是今年进入前五名的新事物,这主要是由于人力资源部门对人工智能的兴趣。在前几年,该主题被嵌入到其他类别中,例如数字员工体验。去年排名第四的总奖励从榜单上掉了下来。 “每年,似乎都会有一个新话题出现在前 5 名名单上,”贝尔说。他说,2023 年,在高通胀和寻求为员工提供经济救济的组织推动下,总薪酬是增加的。但今年,通胀正在放缓,对经济衰退的担忧正在缓解,这可能会减少雇主对这一领域的担忧。 DEI 和福祉仍然是人力资源的优先事项吗? Bell 说,尽管他们没有进入前五名,但 DEI 和福祉仍然是人力资源领导者最关心的问题之一。与去年一样,他们在 2024 年分别排名第六和第七。 Bell 说:“人力资源主管谈到希望保持他们迄今为止在 DEI 方面取得的进展,甚至希望将这些努力提升到一个新的水平。“例如,他们不仅考虑多样性和包容性,还考虑我们如何推动公平和各种人才实践。” 然而,他指出,一些公司正在撤回他们的 DEI 努力。这些行动反映在最高法院去年对平权行动作出裁决后,削减 DEI 预算和裁员 DEI 官员。 他说,同样,雇主对幸福感的关注也在减弱。 “大流行后,人们对员工的健康和福祉非常关注,”贝尔说。“我认为它已经有所消退。我不认为它像我们在调查中看到的其他一些主题那样受到同等程度的关注。 Source Human Resource Executive
    员工体验
    2024年01月31日
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