Posts in Future of Work
How Does HR Prepare for the Future of Work?

A little under a year ago we launched the Digital HR Leaders podcast, in which David Green speaks to a wide range of senior HR leaders who are all breaking boundaries and really pushing a data-driven and digital HR agenda. As we near the launch of our seventh series we decided to take a step back and have a look at how these pioneers see the HR function evolving and what HR needs to do to prepare for the future to ensure we’re delivering on our digital agenda?

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150+ Conferences to attend in 2020 on HR Tech, People Analytics, Employee Experience and the Future of Work

David Green assembles the conferences taking place in 2020 where people analytics, employee experience, HR technology and the future of the week are the dedicated or central theme. There are over 150 conferences chronologically ordered by date and featuring events taking place all over the world from Sydney to San Francisco, and from London to São Paulo.

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How to Use and Analyse Text from Employee Surveys

We increasingly expect a similar experience at work as that we enjoy as consumers. This coupled with advances in technology and the growth of people analytics has seen a surge of growth and innovation in the field of employee experience and surveys. These are just some of the areas David Green covers with his guest Sarah Johnson, Vice President of Enterprise Surveys and Workforce Analytics at Perceptyx, in this episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast. Sarah is an IO psychologist who has been in the survey research space for 35 years and combines her wealth of experience with an exciting vision for the future.

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What are the Skills HR Professionals Need to Develop?

The Human Resources profession needs to change. It must become more digital and analytical to deliver greater business value. The digital age has brought with it sweeping changes to the way that employees and workers interact with each other, the way that work itself gets done. In this weeks episode of the Digital HR Leaders podcast David Green speaks to Jill Larsen, the CHRO of Medidata. In this extract taken from their conversation, Jill and David discuss a topic dear to all of our hearts and that’s the changing nature of HR skills and in particular the skills and capabilities that as a Chief People Officer she looks for in her HR function to support the changing landscape of HR.

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How can AI be used to Reduce Bias in Recruitment?

Unconscious 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.

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Five Steps to Crafting Your Perfect Role

Hanadi El Sayyed discusses the impact job crafting can have on self fulfilment, job satisfaction and whether employees feel they’re carrying out meaningful work. For organisations keen on creating workplace environments where employees thrive and  perform at their best, job crafting is a powerful tool for employee engagement and wellness if implemented and managed effectively. 

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Is HR Ready for the Future of Work?

In a research study conducted by Florian Fleischmann, Maximilian Tallgauer & Prof. Dr. Marion Festing, more than 120,000 HR job postings from nine countries have been leveraged to evaluate how HR departments are adapting to the changing business environment. The results reveal a lot about the challenges HR should address to lead the digital transformation.

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The best HR and People Analytics articles of June 2019

In his monthly round-up of data-driven HR articles for June, David features case studies from Microsoft, Spotify and HSBC as well as insightful articles on how people analytics is helping shape initiatives around culture, employee experience, transformation and innovation. There’s also a special on the growth of AI in HR and featured authors include Laszlo Bock, Dave Ulrich, Dawn Klinghoffer, Katarina Berg, Lexy Martin and Thomas Rasmussen.

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How can HR support Business Disruption?

In this video clip and transcript from this week’s Digital HR Leaders podcast, David Green speaks with Nick Holley, Director of Learning at the CRF. Nick has extensive experience, not only in researching key trends in HR, he also works with major global businesses and has a background in senior HR roles as a partner at Arthur Andersen and a Director of Global People Development at Vodafone.

In this extract from our discussion, Nick and I discuss how HR can support the Business when it comes to organisational development and disruption in the business itself. If you’re interested in learning more about how HR can become more business relevant, then I urge you to watch this video with Nick.

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