Who would have thought that in 2023 we could put on a virtual headset and enter a completely virtual world? OK, while we aren't entirely there (yet), this is exactly what we can look forward to in the near future. With the rise of the metaverse, and more than £120 billion being invested in building out the capabilities of this virtual reality, it is clear that this technology will change how we view the world forever.
Read MoreUnconscious bias is a huge problem in the workplace, especially in areas like recruitment, promotion, and performance management as well as being a major barrier in efforts to improve diversity and inclusion. Whilst training and awareness can help, as humans we have inherent unconscious biases. So how can technology, data and science help? In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast we spoke to Frida Polli the CEO and founder of Pymetrics, In this extract taken from their conversation Frida talks about the ways that AI and machine learning can help reduce bias in recruitment.
Read MoreIn this video clip and transcript from this week’s Digital HR Leaders podcast, Richard Collins (Co-Founder at ClickIQ) gives some great examples of what HR can learn from Marketing and how HR still has a long way to go in terms of creating a customised recruitment experience. If you’re interested in learning more about how automation and artificial intelligence are impacting the Recruitment function, then I urge you to watch this video/read this blog with Richard.
Read MoreIn this article, David assembles the conferences taking place in 2019 where people analytics, employee experience, HR technology and the future of the week are the dedicated or central theme. There are over 100 conferences chronologically ordered by date and featuring events taking place all over the world from Fiji to San Francisco, and from London to Auckland.
Read MoreGiven that half of the world was on holiday, August was a surprisingly prolific month for high-quality people analytics and future of work articles. My 12 favourite ones are presented here…
Read MoreJuly was a momentous month in terms of both the quality and quantity of people analytics articles. As such, I’ve extended my usual collection of my ten favourite articles to twelve this month as well as highlighting the best podcasts and videos from July.
Read MoreLast month I highlighted that people analytics had emerged as the joint top trend in the Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends report. This signal that people analytics has now properly ‘arrived’ continued to grow in May, first as data featured prominently as part of the superb UNLEASH show in Las Vegas (see my key takeaways article). Further reinforcement also came with the publication of the HR Open Source (#HROS) Future of Work Report
Read MoreThe recent 2018 Global Human Capital Trends report from Deloitte highlighted the rising importance of people data and analytics to organisations in Asia Pacific. Figure 1 highlights the top 10 trends in the APAC region, with People Data ranking as the fourth most important trend (it ranked second globally). The study shows that 89% of respondents (the global figure was 85%) believe that people data is important or very important, but that only 38% (42% globally) believe that their organisations are ready or very ready in this category.
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