Workplace wellbeing – in the hands of technology
A quarter of professionals are currently feeling unhappy with their work-life balance, according to recent research, indicating that the pressures of working life are becoming too much for millions of employees across the country. With such a high percentage of employees struggling to cope with the ‘always on’ working culture, it isn’t surprising that the […]
Boring and unproductive meetings? There’s an app for that!
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best HR researchers that tell you what they’ve found and what you need to do differently on the back of the research. Get connected to the academic sector through Academics’ Corner and […]
Buying new HR tech? Take a look under the bonnet
For anyone interested in the world of HR, the now annual release of PARC’s research into HR, technology and analytics has become a much anticipated event. Andrew Lambert’s analysis provides an interesting window on how quickly things are changing in the world of HR. This year’s report, which can be read in full here, did […]
The tech-driven renaissance of employee engagement
We are on the brink of a full-blown, technology-driven renaissance for employee engagement. Major developments in enterprise software, data analytics and workforce composition forecast an impending engagement revival in the sales, marketing and customer service teams. Sounds audacious, right? It should, given the dismal percentage of the global workforce that’s engaged currently, a mere 13 […]
“We are seeing a shift from talent management to people management.”
Karen Minicozzi is Vice President, HCM Product Strategy at cloud HR technology company Workday. In this Q&A we ask her opinions on what HR directors need to know about the HR technology industry, how companies are approaching talent management, what businesses are using analytics for, and more. What do you think are the three biggest […]
Knowing your workforce will impact the bottom line
When Harper Lee wrote “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” in To Kill a Mocking Bird in 1960, technology was only just emerging from academic and military applications. Few could have predicted the impact that it would have in today’s business environment and the role that data analytics could play in understanding […]
Gulp. Are we “reward people” about to be replaced?
With Terminator V about to hit the big screen, we are being reminded once again of the persistent vision of a future where we are dominated by machines. Even Stephen Hawking is in on the act, claiming that machines pose a threat to our very existence. And now I’ve just come across – rather late […]
“Imagine the data we will create in the next five or ten years.”
Tom Marsden is CEO of analytics company Saberr. He is an entrepreneur with experience in strategy consulting, talent management and finance. As a company Saberr help people make better decisions about their people through data. 1) Even though HR has been using the term Big Data for ages, HR data is not voluminous, varied or […]
Can gamification enhance your attraction strategy?
The term ‘gamification’ is one which is widely misunderstood. Many associate it with gaming – conjuring up images of teenage boys playing ‘shoot em up’ on the latest console in their bedrooms. In fact recent research from Penna found that 89% of consumers didn’t know what gamification was. The actual definition is this: The concept […]
HR needs the CIO – a new law of attraction
HR is just one example of the major business functions that is consuming more IT bandwidth from the CIO as it becomes increasingly reliant on technology to improve the way that it functions. This technology can take multiple forms, including an HR solution to track employees’ performance, an e-learning platform for training initiatives or an […]
Real examples of HR analytics in action – and data scientists in HR
This is an interview with Ian Cook, Director of Product Management at workforce analytics company Visier. In this interview Ian discusses the most common and valuable use cases for data analytics in the modern HR department, to what extent the department will be staffed by data scientists in the future, and how HR directors can […]
How to visualise big data in the field of HR
The endless flood of data does not stop at HR’s door. Historical HR processes are causing the amount of data to balloon. Our task now is to glean and process the most important information from all the available data. This gives HR an opportunity to create added value in the age of Big Data. […]
Wearables are the HR tool of the future – today
For most HR professionals, the development and retention of employees has remained largely unchanged over the past few decades. New schools of thought come along bringing with them snappily titled procedures such as ‘personal development plans’, ‘360 reviews’ or ‘psychometric profiling’. However, the fundamental process remains the same – HR professionals ask questions about the […]
Interview: Jaime Losantos, Product Marketing Director, ADP
Jaime Losantos is Product Marketing Director at ADP. He has held senior positions with Oracle, Workday and previously before that with Capgemini and professional services firm KPMG. In this interview we get Jaime’s view on the HR technology industry, what senior HR professionals are coming to expect from vendors, and how companies are becoming faster […]
Organisational charts can help deploy the right employees to the right project at the right time
We interviewed Michael Grimm, managing director at organisation chart technology company Ingentis. Michael tells us his thoughts on key trends in the HR technology industry and misunderstandings among HR directors on the value that can be gained from HR software. Michael will be appearing at HR Tech Europe in London on March 24th and 25th […]
Be optimistic about robots in the workplace
‘Sci-Fi is here: Making the impossible, possible’. This was the clarion call of a recent study by Globaltrends.com of 10 key trends to watch for the future that will have a major impact on changes to the workplace. In particular ‘racing with the machine’ was identified as a key challenge as organisations become more automated with […]
Why did a global children’s right NGO implement HR technology and what did they solve?
We recently interviewed Mark Banbury, Global CIO at Plan International, on how the NGO is using HR technology to save children’s lives. In this follow-up Mark tells us the reasons he chose to implement cloud HR technology and what business challenges have been solved by the implementation. First business challenge solved: how many people work […]
Round-up: HR Tech Europe 2014 Amsterdam
HR has always been a reactive function. And yet you wouldn't think that if you'd been at HR Tech Europe in Amsterdam, on October 23rd and 24th 2014. The HR Tech Europe crowd seem to understand what technology advocates know innately – if you’re studying the present you’re already behind. The fate of HR is […]
The Science Museum has chosen a brilliant name for their staff members
I went to the well-known Science Museum in the “museum quarter” in London in late September and was very impressed with the staff there. They’re called Explainers. It’s a brilliant job title. From that one word we learn: Employee purpose: The fundamental aim of their job is to increase public understanding of science Organisational values: The Science […]
All change for the workforce after three days of awesome new technologies for HR in Las Vegas
The 17th annual HR Technology conference, the world’s leading event focused on technology for human resource executives and professionals, took place in Las Vegas last week. At the conference, we heard from a long line up of great speakers who confirmed what we already know: The modern workforce is changing, and our use of technology […]
