Industry trends | HR leaders reveal their biggest challenges

Working in the world of HR comes with its challenges, such as adapting to developments in tech, getting ready to adapt and evolve, as well as retaining talented employees - but what is the biggest challenge?

Between June and November 2018 Leathwaite polled in excess of 1,000 global Human Resources Executives to gauge what trends they thought were having an impact on the industry.

Respondents included Chief Human Resource Officers, Heads of Specialist Functions and those at the head of HR transformation.

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When asked to rank the top three trends HR professionals expect to have an impact on their role, the rise of the ‘gig’ economy proved to be one of the most popular (19%), closely followed by the emergence of new technologies (18%) and global regulatory demands (17%).