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Hot or Not | Biggest trends impacting HR in October 2020

Biggest trends impacting HR in October 2020
Biggest trends impacting HR in October 2020
   

Over the last month, work from home and long-term flexibility made the headlines, as they began to define what employees want from their employer in the long term…

 

Work from home & ongoing flexibility
The pandemic has inarguably changed what employees imagine work to be – and now those changes are powering what employees feel they are able to demand from a job. In fact, over half of UK workers plan to make career changes within the next year due to coronavirus, largely powered by wanting additional flexibility.

The data from Aviva’s How We Live Report unearthed that the desire for flexibility in a role was the most popular career aspiration in light of the pandemic. In addition, the study found that ten per cent of workers want to find a new role that will allow them to work from home in the next 12 months.


Robotic support
Wellbeing has been top of the agenda this year and so has making work more human – largely as barriers have been broken down between personal and professional lives. Therefore, it might come as a shock that workers actually prefer to have robotic support rather than human support.

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