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The Future of the HR Function 2021
Since early 2020, Human Resources (HR) has faced unprecedented challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Seldom in history has the HR function needed to pivot so quickly and dramatically to meet such urgent workforce and business needs. These trends are requiring HR to rethink its roles and priorities while the world of work is transforming.
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Hiring volumes shift up and down, and sometimes in the upswing, you are left working with fewer resources. It might seem like maintaining your high standards is impossible when your average resources per candidate go down.
During the last year, Covid-19 has created great challenges for businesses that have kick-started new ways of thinking and working. The shift to remote work prompted some companies to expand digital operations, while others created new safety processes or improved hiring practices.
Like other functions (and organizations, leaders, and individuals), HR needs to continually reinvent itself to realize its potential for creating, delivering, and capturing value. Recently, we have had conversations with thoughtful HR trendsetters.
Human resources professionals today are skilled at adapting to fundamental changes, which have come to the workplace in quick succession with the emergence of cloud-based technologies, the rise of the gig economy and remote work arrangements that will likely outlast the pandemic.
Advanced technology has cast a wide net across all human resources functions – recruitment, onboarding, training and development, retention, and overall employee engagement.
Recently, I was coaching a CEO who brought me into his company to help him grow and scale his business. Their revenue was flat—but why? They had a solid strategy and an impressive product but could not execute consistently and effectively.
The one-year-since-the-pandemic milestone is behind us, but the lessons learned will be applied for years to come. Amidst the hardships and hurdles, many executives gained invaluable nuggets of wisdom from leading remote workforces and pivoting to adapt to the times.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the first large-scale Covid stay-at-home orders. The milestone is significant as it provides an opportunity for HR professionals to look back as well as forward in order to best serve employees/organizations entering a new pandemic phase.
The workplace fallout from the pandemic wasn’t the only challenge HR teams had to tackle in 2020 and are still working to resolve in 2021.